WHAT else would you give a man, who writes about Worldham’s wildlife, on his 90 birthday but a bug hut which now takes pride of place in the garden of Brian and Mary Trigwell Jones?

Both Brian and Mary, a former teacher at Bordon’s Mill Chase school, have a passion for gardening and the animals, insects and butterflies that inhabit their garden. They share this love with the many visitors who flock to their East Worldham home, called Selborne, when they open their garden to the public.

For Brian, the rural life in Worldham is ideal because he has been a lover of country life since he was a small boy in Wales. He has been lucky to live in scenic places, spending much of his boyhood in a village in mid Wales, where his father was the post master, in a house with views across the countryside.

And so his love affair with nature began, as he witnessed the many foxes, hedgehogs and small mammals that lived in the garden, as well as the different species of birds that nested in it or flew over it.

For full story, see this week’s Bordon Herald.