Blackbirds and fieldfares all over our hawthorn.
2 December 2019
trees
16 November 2019
Lots of berries.
22 September 2019
A dreich day.
12 February 2019
Charles Darwin’s 210th birthday.
9 January 2019
Log-splitting.
5 January 2019
A fallen tree and a fatal house-fire.
Keswick Woods
In which I return to a favourite childhood haunt after a gap of 40 years.
The Art of Sloe Gardening
In which I attempt to grow blackthorn seedlings from sloes collected last autumn.
The nearly-dead tree
Each spring, I visit a particular corner of the Moor to check if an old friend has managed to survive another winter.