Foxes

Visitors who have been popping into "Yorkshire Pudding" for a long time may remember that since I retired I have derived a great deal of pleasure from the Geograph photo-mapping project to which, at the last count, I have submitted 18,638 photographs.

Geograph has increased my motivation to get outside walking and it has also taught me a great deal about the geography and history of these fabulous and fascinating islands - The British Isles.

I do not know exactly how many active contributors are still sending their images to Geograph but it will be somewhere around ten thousand people who live all over this country and in Ireland too. 

In recent months, I have been impressed by fox pictures taken by a contributor called Peter Trimming. He has gathered them in West Brompton Cemetery, London. It is bang next to Stamford Bridge - the home ground of Chelsea F.C. and about a mile from where my son lives - along Lillie Road past North End Road to Fulham.

In the past, Shirley and I have explored West Brompton Cemetery. It is where the women's suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst is buried. Go here. During our visit, we saw squirrels and pigeons but we did not spot any foxes. They may have smelled us coming.

However, Peter Trimming has had much better luck and below I have picked just six of his magical fox pictures to share with you...

And finally, using my Google detective skills, I was able to track down a picture of  the old fox himself - the man responsible for these images. Let us applaud Peter Trimming. Such patience, such technical skill and such affection for urban foxes...