Flying babies and fledging thoughts.
Tag: nature
A tale of two piggies
How fostered hedgehogs turned a Victorian classic into contemporary fiction.
Your global cube
We’re giving you all a piece of our garden.
Hoe-digger’s Hog
Releasing a rescue hedgehog.
Speaking for the Unspeakable
The garden speaks continuously, day and night. It has spoken since long before it was enclosed ninety years ago, and it will never stop unless it becomes concreted ground. Even then it will speak again; just give it time. It has always been heard, we hear it all every day and read it continuously, but its messages are not conveyed. They remain within us.
Leaving
Autumn arrived late this year just in time for winter and for the leaving.
Looping the Lune
A four-mile fool-proof circular walk alongside the river that gave Lancashire its name.
Augustine
August is the month when the unspoken garden stops and thinks. Things still grow, but the growing is slow. The knowing does its growing.
Lughnassadh
Proclaiming the triumph of the unspoken flowers.
Midsummer Murthers
Summer solstice: a natural crime story.



