The Gleam of Light on Water

Reading this book was like coming home. The subject range is very familiar - landscape, language, home, emigration, music. There are a goo...

School's out for summer! So I will be looking after Lucy a lot, and posts will be when I can get around to them. But beofre I disappear...

Every so often I want to get on my high horse and rant about this, but here's a guy who has done the job for me, back in 1957, without a...

One of the many upheavals in the cultural world over my lifetime has been a reappraisal of pastoral poetry. In my youth pastoral poetry was ...

There's a whole lot of progress and change going on in this territory. The herbs are full and lush, and sage and thyme are drying in the...

These are pictures from last year, and choosing them really showed me how late everything is. This time last year the alchemilla looked like...

I've just added some new blogs to the list, following the Dark Mountain Weekend. Go check out, Graftage, The Poetry Pile, The Salt Road ...