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An Ecology of Love & Ruin
The Last Apple Harvest After twenty-one years, we are leaving this place. And not in the manner I so often feared we might – at our most vulnerable, and with nowhere else to go, like so many before and around us – but through our own agency. I don’t have to think how long we’ve
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New website!
Welcome to my lovely new website, designed and built exactly – nay, far more beautifully, than I imagined, by the very lovely Nick at HandPressed. Nick has worked through my ideas with great intuition and been so clear and supportive that it’s been a happy and exciting process. I knew Nick had made beautiful websites
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An Ecology of Love & Ruin
Welcome to a new iteration of my Nature Notes blog, An Ecology of Love and Ruin. The name comes from a chapter in my first book On Gallows Down and I hope will steer and guide my intention: to write, mostly from home, where I have written for more than twenty years about loving nature
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Nature Notes
Ghosts of the Farm – Two Women’s Journeys Through Time, Land and Community. Hello there. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? But I am thrilled to announce my new book, & reveal its most beautiful cover. Ghosts of the Farm – Two Women’s Journeys Through Time, Land & Community will be published by my very lovely publishers, Chelsea Green
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Nature Notes
A Newsy One: books, ambassadorship, SO much reading, writing tips to ReWild Yourself … and a tease; keeping my powder dry, just a little. August into September, 2024. This blog (with apologies) is necessarily a newsy update, rather than my more usual Nature Notes, with lots of links to what I’ve been up to. It
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Nature Notes
To London to March, under an empty, feverish sky … June into July 2024. On Saturday June the 22nd, around 80,000-100,00 people responded to Chris Packham’s and Megan McCubbin’s clarion call to Restore Nature Now – and marched through London, from Park Lane to a rallying point in Parliament Square. I was able to make
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Nature Notes
Lights, Action … May into June 2024. With apologies for the tardiness of this blog … there has just been so much going on and too much to do! ‘Writing between the gaps’ of life, family and work is something I’ve always had to do, as many of us do (and that in itself is
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Nature Notes
Grey Skies, Grey Wagtails, Linnets, & a New Writing Companion … April 2024. It’s been a chilly spring of grey-lidded skies and so very much rain. Sometimes, things feel far from ‘normal,’ and there is a kind of surreal, lucid edge around the lens of things, when I’m very aware the joint wildlife and climate
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Nature Notes
Winter Thrushes, Warmer Thrushes … March 2024. Whilst the calendar month has moved on and daylight has increased past six o’clock in the evening, it still feels wintery – chilly and damp with porridgey skies and so much water and mud. The spring I’m noticing most at the moment comes via the thrushes. As soon
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Nature Notes
The Shining of the Woods … February, 2024 As I write today, there are patches of blue among white clouds sailing over, but in truth, my goodness it’s been a wet and windy start to the year. Between flooded roads and incomprehensible, prolonged road closures, it’s been hard to leave the village sometimes, and mud