One of our friendly hedgehogs bumbling around in the dark You, my readers, have probably realised by now that I enjoy nature and love our garden (mainly created by my dear Marion) as well as all the visitors – well, maybe not all, in fact definitely not all. We have always welcomed birds to ourContinue reading “Night time raiders who treat our garden with complete disdain”
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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”
Let’s get back to nature
No, I’m not suggesting we shuck off our threads and get back to the way nature intended us to be. My hippy days are long gone and I wouldn’t want to scare the horses. I really do mean getting back to nature and helping out the wildlife at the same time. Marion has always beenContinue reading “Let’s get back to nature”
Love and the Gentle Heart
by Dante Alighieri 1265-1331 Love and the gentle heart are one thing, just as the poet says in his verse, each and the other one as well divorced as reason from the mind’s reasoning. Nature creates love, and then creates love king, and makes the heart a palace where he’ll stay, perhaps a shorter orContinue reading “Love and the Gentle Heart”
Heaney: a taste of nature
Seamus Heaney could turn a moment’s thought into a naturalistic poem of pure joy. He may be an acquired taste but he’s worth it. Oysters by Seamus Heaney/ Our shells clacked on the plates, My tongue was a filling estuary, My palate hung with starlight: As I tasted the salty Pleiades Orion dipped his footContinue reading “Heaney: a taste of nature”
Robin's Nest 