Of all seasons autumn has most effect on me. I love spring and summer with the flowers and big warm days. Don’t like winter or its approach. The ninth month of the year is getting close and a time, for me, of dread. Last winter was particularly hell-like and my lockdown escape consisted of drives […]
It is only by going off the track that you get to know the country – E.M. Forster Ideologies, like dogs, remain just outside the hermit’s door – Sylvain Tesson People collect pebbles, feathers, flowers, to record their nature walks. Ferns perhaps or leaves, inserted into journals with weather notes. I tried sketches and connect […]
They’ve made it again, Which means the globe’s still working, the Creation’s Still waking refreshed, our summer’s Still all to come – Swifts, by Ted Hughes The British psyche is closely related to weather. Other places are easily warm and blue, a few always icy, but Britain is fickle with a trend towards grey. If […]