Blog
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Michaelmas-tide
We have just a week left in the old house. We hired a van this weekend to take the large furniture – which really wasn’t much, and looks very old, small and shabby-looking suddenly. But it’s all the stuff. The stuff you accumulate and hold onto in a life, because you might need it; but
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A lot, all at once!
A lot of exciting things have happened, all at once! My new book, Ghosts of the Farm, Two Women’s Journeys Through Time, Land and Community is out now – and I’ve had the most wonderful and encouraging initial reviews. Authors I deeply admire have said breathtakingly lovely stuff, early readers I hugely value have said
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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