Our Vital Earth

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

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

4th June 2018 I'm back from staying with my uncle on the Isle of Islay. This is the most southerly large island of the Inner Hebrides....

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...