

"Just like moons and suns, with certainty of tides, just like hopes springing high, still I'
'Ey up me ducks, it's been an absolute age full of change but I'm back. The allotment had to go but 2 months ago I escaped Bristol to...


"You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book." ~ Dr.
After three years of acquiring this particular selection I had a great time sifting back through them before sending: 1) the top shelf to...


"We inter-breathe with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own bo
I went from regulation Autumn waterproofs to actually saluting the sun in four hours flat. Or at least I would have done had I not...


"A spider web in the face will instantly make anyone a karate master." ~ Anon
Channelling the spirit of Catherine Zeta-Jones in Entrapment I tried to stealthily negotiate the trip wires all the spiders had set for...


"In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature...ye shall find yourse
Early mornings are my favourite so - before the world wakes and the day has the chance to run away with me - being two phalanges deep in...


"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds you in its net of wonders forever." ~ Jacques Cou
The journey was smooth, even the cliff-edge bus ride that made up the last leg. It had practically been a tour of the island's most...


"There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature..." ~ Jul
Recently I've been trying to chatter like a magpie but scrabble down from the tree chuckling to myself at another less-than-successful...


"Tea...is a religion of the art of life." ~ Kakuzō Okakura
Knuckle-deep in dirt again and this time I'm trying to tame my wonderfull pungent but entirely unruly profusion of mint. Most of the...