walking at night
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Nature Notes
A Midsummer Night’s Trespass. Midsummer. And after a day of heavy showers, all is glistening. The long grass is a heathered haze of flowering Yorkshire fog. My boots and jeans are already soaked through and the grass pollen has made lichen-green smears across my knees. There is a certain euphoria felt, running out into a […]
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Nature Notes
On Speen Moors, Part I Just past sunset, on the trail of a locally made You Tube film tweeted 2 days earlier, I park the car somewhat irresponsibly off the A4. And walk down a footpath familiar to me 20 years ago, shouldering my binoculars. I am wrong footed, immediately. There are lights moving and […]
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Nature Notes
Midsummer Nocturne In recent weeks, I have found myself going out just before dark, after the children have gone to bed. I can’t go far – just as long as the spooled out ties-that-bind allow, my ears alert to any sounds from the house. The evenings are scented with honeysuckle and I creep about, pausing […]