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...

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

Two 80-acre fields at Cookley, near Halesworth, with winter wheat ( shades of yellowish green, blueish green ) on clayland, undulating...

There's a Norfolk Island Pine ( Araucaria heterophylla ) sapling on the 6th floor at County Hall, Norwich.  It is not looking parti...

It is Spring, and  flowers appear on the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle dove is heard in our l...

9-12-16 My friend Julia B and I met yesterday at Great Hockham for a wilderness expedition. Julia is researching a book on Doggerla...