Nature Notes
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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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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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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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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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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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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 […]
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An update, a catch-up … January, 2024. It’s been over a year since I’ve published a blog here – it’s been rather a busy one – and whilst I’ve updated other parts of my website, I’ve unintentionally neglected this page … At the start of 2023, I began writing a monthly opinion column for Countryfile […]
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The Fallow Buck and the Lightning Fork. Such heavy rainstorms. What my Northamptonshire Nan would have called ‘knicker soakers.’ I walk towards the approaching thunderstorm at first; it is on the other side of the hill and this side is yet dry. A bank of heavy grey cloud deepens and white cloud moves fast in […]
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Burning Fields. Though the unprecedented heat has eased, the frightening intensity of it remains. Coldharbour Farm and its grain silos shimmered like a mirage in the fan-oven heat. Much of the harvest there was done before the schools broke up, and woodpigeons panted on the sticky tarmac, where even the water leaks had dried up. […]