Little can be said of the Madeiran wood pigeon except that it vanished from Madeira during the early years of the twentieth century.

Stumps of older fallen trees, known as upright monoliths, have incredible environmental value and can provide a home and food source for insects for decades.

The bell sounded. It was a hand-bell, rung by a boy in the next class-room.

I had bought a toy in the street for my own amusement. It represented a woman, a young mother, flinging her little son over her head with one hand and catching him in the other ... The unmanly chuckle always came, I found, when the poor lady dropped her babe, […]