SO said the Bard of Avon.

BLUE TITS raised a brood in a nestbox at Wicklow Montessori School this summer.

THE Natural History Museum, closed for three years following the collapse of a staircase, has reopened in Dublin’s Kildare Street.

COWSLIPs and violets are having a bumper year.

THE anthropologist Robin Dunbar visited Trinity College’s Science Gallery last week.

EACH spring, RTÉ’s Mooney Show sets up nest-boxes at locations around Dublin.

POOR old Iceland is in the dog-house.

HOI An is a beautiful town near the mouth of Vietnam’s Thu Bon River.

IN January 2007, a strange bird was seen on the sea off Farnham in Yorkshire.

BAKEND Temple, on a hill west of Angkor, offers spectacular views of the setting sun.