IT’S early morning. I check on the state of my garden. All seems well. I throw out some grain for the birds. A male blackbird drops ...
MY friend Rosemary Henderson is driving the two of us east through and past Maidenhead. As we approach the outskirts of Slough, she ...
IN the run-up to the general election, our major political parties suddenly pledged to plant millions of trees across the United ...
WHAT a day it has turned out to be. The sky is blue and the vapour trails of transatlantic aeroplanes criss-cross the sky without a ...
A SONG thrush sings its repetitive, beautiful but rather mournful song early this morning. It started its solitary dawn chorus some ...
THE sun is out and I’ve many errands to run but then I get a phone call from my pal Dave Kenny, who has recently returned from an ...
I HAVE to make an early morning dash to one of the pharmacists in Caversham. On my way along Prospect Street, I notice that on the ...
I AWOKE to near total darkness, incessant rain and gloom as we had changed back to Greenwich Mean Time during the night. Then suddenly ...
WORMS. Yes, I’ll say that again, worms, or more specifically, earthworms. Without these simple creatures we’d have no soil. Some ...
AUTUMN is well and truly here. We passed the autumnal equinox way back on September 23 and the days are now noticeably shorter and ...
I OFTEN dream of waking up in a sunlit glade with a gurgling brook as it trickles downhill. A place to relax, feel at home, soak up ...
AS I step out this morning a skein of maybe 30 Canadian geese are flying overhead in perfect formation and with such precision that ...
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