Our Vital Earth

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...

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...

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

Out on the heath, low September sunlight and a warm, southerly wind over close-cropped turf and bristly gorse bushes. There are paths ...

How can a wasp fly? The question is a 'how' question, asking about means and mechanisms. One answer would be to explain about wi...