Our Vital Earth

As the human world reels under the malign influence of  Coronavirus , my thoughts turn to Cretaceous barnacles.  This sudden interest in e...

A fossil whale vertebra can be a beautiful thing. I was delighted when a friend gave me one he'd found on Landguard beach, near Felixsto...

Dreams are strange things - such spontaneous flights of invention which I could hardly conceive in my daytime life. This morning, just bef...

18th August 2014 Today I took the opportunity to do some desk work out of doors, sitting on the terrace by the front door and proof-readin...

East Beach at Bawdsey, Suffolk - 7th November 2013 A brown lump of sandstone, easily overlooked on the beach. The ghost of a shell impress...