• I have built just a little scratch fire. Enough to boil a kettle of water, enough to keep just comfortably warm, enough to watch the [...]

  • By the time Summer gets here, the birdsong eases off. Those trills and calls, lookingto entice a mate, have paid off. So now they ease [...]

  • Winter has now given way to longer days, even if there can still be a noticeable chill, and it becomes easier to go out for a longer walk. Embrace the cold and feel the bones beneath your skin, the blood that runs through your veins and rises like the Spring buds, the sap in the trees, the rising colours.