richard jefferies
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Nature Notes
Wild Writing. Three lovely women join me for a Wild Writing Workshop at BBOWT’s Thatcham Nature Discovery Centre. We discuss ‘the new nature writing’, its ancient roots and tradition; its resurgence and the reasons (and need) for it. And we try to define something that, in its wild essence, defies catagorisation. But we come up […]
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Nature Notes
At Coate Water. At Coate, on the growing skirts of Swindon, the new housing estate laps against the remnant fabric of the farm where Richard Jefferies, nature writer, journalist, agriculturalist and naturalist was born in 1848. The busy Marlborough Road slides past the old farm wall and its scattered outbuildings; yet by the time Jefferies was […]