An Ecology of Love & Ruin
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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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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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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