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In the Workshop today
Apart from cloud watching that is – I actually worked pretty hard today, and now in the warmth, and full of supper, feel happily tired.
My very own climate change
It is something I’ve never experienced before – indoor clouds! Well, inside sort of – actually in my workshop. The hard frost meant iced up locks and bitter working conditions today, and I might have given in, except for the strong sun, which stung my already ‘frost-burned’ face. As soon as it was high […]
Cabinet of Curiosities
Sometimes as I garden, little treasures pop up out of the soil, or occasionally they are washed down in the beck and stand out because of pattern, colour or shine. These are recent aquisitions, and will join my other rows of comforting curiosities. I have quite a collection now and I love to […]
Visit to Mima
On Thursday I visited Mima – it was a trip planned and organised by Ryedale Artworks. We all gathered and travelled by mini-bus to Middlesbrough. It was my first visit to Mima, and I have to say that on arrival I was a little underwhelmed – though we did seem to arrive at the […]
Knotty Brambles
I’ve spent time this weekend clearing brambles. The area where they grow, down the side of my workshop, used to be a hedgerow, there are ash tree stumps and it is a place I tend to leave to grow naturally wild. The geese have made nests and laid eggs there in the thick […]
Birdsong and Breakfast
The very first things for me in the New Year are birdsong and breakfast with my geese. Happy New Year to all – hope your 2014 started as happily as mine!
MBE for Ryedale Wildlife Rehabilitation
I was so pleased to see on the front of our local paper today that Jean Thorpe, who founded Ryedale Wildlife Rehabilition, is receiving the MBE for services to wildlife rescue in Yorkshire. For over thirty years Jean has been dedicated to the rescue and returning to the wild, of injured and sick animals […]
Otters
I’m still reading Otter Country by Miriam Darlington – and loving it! Early in the book she writes that after reading Henry Williamson’s Tarka the Otter she was so enthralled and spell-bound by otters, that ‘for months afterwards I felt like I was an otter’. It was so exciting to read this, as it […]
Otter Country
The book Otter Country – in search of the wild otter, by Miriam Darlington, I think may be my best Christmas present this year. As soon as I had opened it, I just wanted to settle down quietly, and disappear into the story. The reviews on the back cover heighten the anticipation – […]
Taste the Rain
I love walks on Christmas Day, fresh air after the excesses and excitements. I went for a walk on Boxing Day, and today too, despite the wind and rain. Today’s walk took me through Hagg Wood, a bank of trees snaking above the stream that runs through Lastingham village. Once amongst the bare tree […]