lovely – Robin’s Nest

Spring

by Gerard Manley Hopkins Nothing is so beautiful as spring -When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrushThrough the echoing timber does rinse and wringThe ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;The glossy peartree leaves and blooms, they brushThe descending blue, that blue isContinue reading “Spring”

Lovely or loathsome – the wide world of animals holds them all

By now I take it you will be aware that I have a great fondness for nature in general and wildlife in particular. When I was little we had a Welsh collie called Scrap and I thought the world of him. He had been part of the household long before I arrived, in fact beforeContinue reading “Lovely or loathsome – the wide world of animals holds them all”