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May
I’ve been delving into my seasonal reading again this month. Steve Roud’s chapter on May in his book The English Year, is a riot of flower strewn celebrations. Roud says that traditionally May would have rivalled Christmas in the scale … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration
Tagged buttercups, cheese-rolling, cow parsley, cuckoos, ducking day, elms, hedgerows, hobby horses, illustration, jack-by-the-hedge, may, May Day, maypoles, nightingales, ragged robin, reading, seasonal, seasonality, seasons, Stephen Moss, steve roud, stitchwort, the english year, thresholds, Wild Hares and Hummingbirds
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The English Year
I have added a second book to my monthly readings to help me keep my New Year’s resolution of getting back to simplicity and seasonality. This book is called The English Year and is by Steve Roud. The English Year … Continue reading
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Tagged bad wine, benedictine, customs, festivals, illustration, kissing friday, oxford, pull lug day, seasonality, sister, st scholastic's day, steve roud, students, the english year, traditions
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Wild Hares and Hummingbirds
The sparrows have found our feeders! Granted it took minus temperatures for them to venture into our exposed garden but it’s a start. The hills behind our house were thick with snow this weekend. The trees wore strips of snow … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Wildlife
Tagged bird feeders, birds, blackthorn, children, church yards, gilbert white, gold crest, great tit, illustration, January, landscape, Mark, nature, Random House, seasonality, simplicity, skein, small birds, snow, Somerset, somerset levels, sparrows, Stephen Moss, The Natural History of Selbourne, Wild Hares and Hummingbirds, winter, yews
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