Rural Writings

For millennia plants, especially herbs, roots and fungi have been used for medicinal purposes. Two of my favourite anti-viral herbs are rosehips % elderberry.

The cranberries made a rich and redolent addition to the colour in the garden, contrasting with the white hellebores. However, there was an unexpected catch.

The Nuthatch swoops down from the Silver Birch, low across the garden with a cry that both contains surprise and joy at the new day.

Is the end of Christmas, or Twelfth Night, on the 5th January, also known as Epiphany’s Eve, or the 6th, the Feast of Epiphany? Let's discuss.

I wish you all a Happy, Courageous, and Lightful New Year as church bells ring in midnight on New Year's Eve tonight & heralds the New Year.

After a year of losses, illness, political misendeavours, scaremongering & fear, even in the countryside, what can we celebrate this year...?

The annual debate has started about whether real Christmas trees or artificial versions are more harmful to the environment.

I do wonder is Christmas dead as a DODO this year? Are we living in a fantastic Alice in Wonderland world...? See our new online shop!

We have had an interesting encounter with the most charming little mouse, who I met in the middle of the night last month..... Read more!

Our owls have been working overtime this week, and particularly last night when there was a veritable little and large owl orchestra.

So one grasshopper might be chance, two is curious and three, seemed to me to have some significance. So, off I went to investigate.

This morning as I was reading and working in the early dawn a grasshopper arrived on my journal at 5.56am. What a surprise!