“Oh Hello, this is the Guardian. Do you have a moment?” I was only a few slurps into my morning coffee and my breakfast was about to go...

I've been trying to get to grips with some scientific names for various marine critters. They tend to be formed from genus, species and...

Well, that's what Ian said - which was awfully nice of him! But then, I do just seem to get awfully nice people contacting my little...

Shameful, I know...but I had never dived Babbacombe! Either the wind was going the wrong way, the visibility too poor, too much rain,...