Caught in the act

摘要

This is not only about how boy meets girl; it's also about how boy flies straight past girl and chooses instead to try to have sex with a lamppost. It's 10:05 p.m. I am sitting on the curb in a pub car park. Many guided nature walks start this way. Wildlife groups think it's so easy when they organize guided walks for the public. "Meet at the Robin Hood pub car park!" they say in their ads. "10 p.m.!" Well, that's all well and good, but it's dark at 10:05 p.m. and I feel a bit weird wandering up to people outside a pub, bumbling about like Hugh Grant, asking strangers, "Excuse me, are you guys here for the glowworms?" Then I notice them: about 30 people standing in the street opposite, all of whom are wearing good, sturdy walking boots.