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First Day Of December

Hello December, well you certainly haven't let us down! The first meteriological day of Winter and here you are with a sky full of stars....

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Dec 3, 20231 min read

Poohsticks and Custard Creams

"No I'm not getting old I begin to live who I really am" By Bianka luz The Autumn rains persist, we await golden colours that have not...

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Nov 5, 20231 min read

November comes

October leaves with howls and growls, She rattles the Holly, she bows the Birch And chills the walls of the old shepherd's church. The...

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Nov 5, 20231 min read

Autumn, we salute you

The Bindweed has climbed, twisting high, higher, seeking, clinging, trumpeting its presence amongst the heights of hemp agrimony, flowers...

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Oct 15, 20231 min read

Turning, Falling

Just as spring smudged into summer, her edges blurring, colours blending, then defining, into something new, sharper, brighter in hue, in...

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Sep 22, 20231 min read

A Million Seeds

Remember the meadows of summers long ago, At harvest time where grasses grew in golden hue, Where poppy's scarlet silken petals spread,...

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Sep 22, 20231 min read

Slip Through Time

Last evening upon a Sussex Hill, where ancient folk of old made camp, the chalk still damp from early rain, the horizon soft with cloud,...

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Sep 22, 20231 min read

Reasons for Seasons

Here we are, into the sixth month of the year, half-way through another year, mid-June and the Summer Solstice. The weather is fine, the...

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Jun 20, 20238 min read

Hirundine Dell

Sometimes there is a place which we pass by frequently and take little notice, we see it so often that it just becomes, quite literally,...

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Jun 8, 20233 min read

Wren

The simplest things can catch your attention whilst you are doing some kind of daily chore or task and you find yourself caught up in a...

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Mar 21, 20237 min read

Whispers from the past.

History - social history, fascinating, it is everywhere you look. We both have a passion for history, whether it is researching family...

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Feb 18, 20235 min read

St. Valentine saves the day!

After the seeming endless bleakness of January when signs of spring are confined to the paleness of snowdrop buds and tightly held hazel...

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Feb 14, 20233 min read

And Winter Came

And loudly does the song thrush sing of happy new years to come, before the mistle thrush atop the lime tree, rattles in the next...

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Jan 31, 20234 min read

Cornish Snow in March

We are a couple of two halves, the Artist and the Druid - one with deep Cornish heritage just a generation or so back, before World War I...

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Jan 25, 20239 min read

If You Go Down to the Woods….

Of all the ancient, ‘old ways’ traditions and celebrations that mark the seasons of the year January brings the first, that of Wassail...

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Jan 16, 20231 min read

Dear Patricia - a personal memoir

January - A time for pondering, pottering, and wondering, remembering, planning. These first few days of the year have been persistently...

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Jan 6, 20235 min read

January - First Ink

I found a pack of postcards, their surface pristine, white like fresh early dawn snow, my fingers twitched, my nose itched, the...

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Jan 3, 20233 min read

The Darkness

The darkness is coming thick and fast, it seems relentless, never ending, like that certain fizzy drink advert of the Santa train on the...

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Dec 21, 20221 min read

Christmas Past

Winter festivities, Solstice, and Christmas time - it all approaches so fast once December is upon us, folk become busy and animated with...

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Dec 19, 20226 min read

A Box of Favourites

With 40 years of official togetherness that this mid-December brings, we have been looking back at things we have done and places we have...

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Dec 8, 20225 min read