With warm, or should I say hot and humid, weather, we can hear the sound of black crickets.

British iconic punk and new wave rockers The Stranglers will be hitting our shores next month as part of their 50th anniversary tour.

While I have occasionally referred to the young missus’s Labrador pup as “the Black Torpedo”, I must say she has assumed more agreeable manners now that she is three years old — in dog years, that makes her a mature young lady, ready for anything.