british storms

  • Nature Notes

    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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  • Nature Notes

    Storm Martins Hanging out the washing against a hot, blue still-summer sky, I was suddenly aware of birds. On the aerials above the house: house martins. Our house eaves (and that of my three neighbours) still bear the ghosted imprints of former nests; but the house martins had already gone before we moved in, over […]

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