Tag: Book

• Birches

  I like to think some boy’s been swinging them.But swinging doesn’t bend them down to stayAs ice-storms do. Often you must have seen themLoaded with ice a sunny winter morningAfter a rain. They click upon themselvesAs the breeze rises, and turn many-coloredAs the stir cracks and crazes their enamelSoon the sun’s warmth makes them shed…

  Garden Life

  26th Nov 2022

  Garden

  Poetry, Nature, Book, Andy Beer, Robert Frost, Gustav Klimt, Painting, Silver Birch

• Existential Rain!

  What a thoroughly miserable day it was yesterday. Nothing was planned, besides needing a quick trip for groceries but it felt like the weather had brought my world to an unwanted stand still. Yes, that’s being a bit overdramatic lol. But can we just have our normal rain again and not this soaking, mirroring the…

  Garden Life

  22nd Nov 2022

  Garden

  Book, Climate change, Environment, Invasive species, Native species, Nature, Simon Barnes, Wallace and Grommit, Wildlife

• Reasons to be Cheerful

  Three cheers for the National Trust as they plough on ahead whilst others squabble. Especially as I can pat myself on the back for including some of the species they mention. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/03/national-trust-to-plant-1200-hectares-of-flower-filled-grassland-in-devon The opening of this introduction resonated with me so that I simply had to buy it after reading >>> ‘There is a common…

  Garden Life

  5th Nov 2022

  Garden

  Book, Conservation, Environment, National Trust, Uk, Wildlife