Beloved long-tail tits have joined me at table

READERS of this newspaper are very erudite people.

Last week I wrote about a wild-flower I had come across in Sardinia that I couldn’t identify. Within hours I had an email from a reader correctly naming the plant from my description.

It was Oxalis pes-caprae, a type of sorrel which has a number of English names, one of which is goat’s foot, which is a translation of the Latin specific name. I learnt from the internet it’s a native of South Africa, is widely naturalised in many countries with a Mediterranean-type climate and is regarded as a pest in some. It’s certainly a very attractive pest.