Our Vital Earth

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...

'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...

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

22-4-2017 The parish of Bressingham (south Norfolk) is hardly a hilly place, but it does have 'upland' and 'lowland' a...

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...