I need my eyes tested

12th September 2013

As I was helping to work Kew up the Curdworth Locks on the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal a scurrying movement by my feet caught my eye.

I thought it was a strange spider, so I took a close-up photograph of it.

Not a spider at all, but what looks like a grasshopper.

And I could see clearly what it was only when I looked at the photo on my computer. As I say, I need my eyes tested. I'll have to see my son-in-law ...