Pete Hartley: sometime dramaturg, perennial scribbler
I named him BalwinBecause it means ‘bold friend’He’s much bolder than IBut nowhere near as bald.Hopping into her potting shedWithout asking permissionStealing treatsAsking for favoursFistfuls of fatAtrophied mealsSwell his cropBetween badges of greyNot normally noted on a black-breasted bird. That’s how we know it is himIt’s his i.d.That’s meSays heUnder our apple treeNear to her … Continue reading Baldwin the Bold
Flying babies and fledging thoughts.
How fostered hedgehogs turned a Victorian classic into contemporary fiction.
We’re giving you all a piece of our garden.
Releasing a rescue hedgehog.
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.
Autumn arrived late this year just in time for winter and for the leaving.
A four-mile fool-proof circular walk alongside the river that gave Lancashire its name.
August is the month when the unspoken garden stops and thinks. Things still grow, but the growing is slow. The knowing does its growing.
Proclaiming the triumph of the unspoken flowers.
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