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Water
It is April and the rain continues to poor. Growers and farmers bemoan the wet and the burgeoning mollusc population. I looked for those precious bright days that often pepper March, but they did not appear. Anyone who works outside … Continue reading
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Tagged authenticity, maya angelou, rain, rest, spring, wet, winter, wood anemone, wood sorrell
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Orchard planting day
When I imagined us planting the orchard at Pocket, I’d imagined a still, dry weekend, everyone gathered together, savouring planting the trees slowly and carefully, retreating to the Home Glade to graze on a spread of home-baked goodies beside the … Continue reading
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Tagged blessings, home, land work, love, orchard, place, prayer, rain, tree planting, weather warning
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One year on
Friday marked one whole year since The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair hit bookshop shelves. I spent that day visiting schools and bookshops to talk about the book and sign copies. The following week I would visit more schools … Continue reading
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Tagged children's author, children's books, children's mental health awareness week, dawn, devon, fossils, frost, Hannah Foley, ice, mental health, mental illness, middle grade fiction, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, winter, Zephyr Books
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Shining moon
The darkest days of the year are the weeks either side of the winter solstice, when not just the light seems to have been sucked out of the sky in the UK, but also the colour from everything. During this … Continue reading
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Tagged connection, Dark days, illness, midwinter, slwoing down
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An acorn
Finch stuck a perfect golden acorn to his bedroom door with blue tack. Right in the middle, where his nose might hit the door, if he didn’t stop to open it. He didn’t say a thing about it. It just … Continue reading
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Tagged acorn, allotment, christmas, festive preparations, growing, nuthatch, treehouse, wren
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Still
Two thirds of the windows of our half-term holiday let are filled with sky, the remainder with the rise and fall of the tide in the estuary. Just up the road, great rollers unfurl onto the shore with plumes of … Continue reading
Bells
Thursday evening is bell ringing practice in the parish church behind our house. One of my favourite things is to open one of the velux windows in the attic, and lean out, listening. The waning Harvest Moon lights up a … Continue reading
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Tagged apple juicing, apple picking, autumn, badgers, church bells, community interest group, devon, evening, harvest, Love Food CIC, nasturtiums, orchards
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September
Skeins of geese fly over the roof tops, honking gentle encouragement to each other. It is a time of change in the natural world as creatures all over the planet follow the irresistible, internal tug to migrate. The geese trace … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment, autumn, dried beans, dried peas, geese, migration, new shoes, pumpkins, school, soil, stews, winter
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Toad in the log pile
I was moving logs from the chopping block to the log store. The wood had been chopped the day before and a toad had taken up residence. I almost didn’t see him, then he was there, and completely impossible to … Continue reading
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Tagged devon, in the moment, log pile, mobile phones, nature, Norman MacCaig, poetry, summer, toad, wildlife
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