Our Vital Earth

Alfred Russell Wallace writes (1869): <One of my objects in coming to the Far East was accomplished. I had obtained a specimen of the  Ki...

 Prof Bill Sutherland visited the Bungalow recently and became interested in the ant hills there. So I explained their story to him as part ...

July 2025. A hot field with wildflower mix is sweltering in South Suffolk sunshine. The clay-rich topsoil has cracked over the past few week...

Cringleford is a Norfolk village lying about two and a half miles distant from the city centre of Norwich. It is an affluent suburb close to...

May returns and “ the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land ”. Sadly, the voice of the lawnmower is more likely to be heard today, as...

Grief comes as a sudden surprise, like a sudden shower in May, and I remember you. I never imagined this day would come - you, strong as a...

'Carstone I will mention in order to abuse it"   (Jacquetta Hawkes ('A Land', 1951). Why not? This orangey-coloured Norfolk...

About five years ago I came across the painting 'Insatiable' by Theodore Bolha and Chris Davis.  It graces the cover of ' Clima...

The garden is - as ever - a wealth of life: a ferment of greenery and flies, birds and song, sunlight patterns on leaves: myriad changes in ...