And a mystery resolved. This morning, there was another broken egg on the back lilac. I could not work out how it could have been left...

Oh Lord, I have forgotten that saying... comparisons are evil? egregious? Darn. This happens. Sometimes I think it's early onset...

the poplars on the Reserve make it feel very autumnal. It's more related to the drought, I think, than the advanced state of the summer....

These are images from the bat monitoring walk, but the text is two conversations with Kairos. Kairos is in plain text, my comments and...

A rare trip to the small circular copse near the copse where the poplars are. I was hoping to see roe deer. Disappointed in that but...

I went for a walk to blow some of the cobwebs away. Birder Neil had told me that a certain track was a good place to spot redstarts, so I...

I'm talking about that church, not my life, despite the incredible aptness of that phrase for the ontology of the Crone. I popped in to...

A broken pigeon's egg caught in the ivy of the back lilac. Someone must have carried it or dropped it there. I found a very small part...

Not as many photos as usual from my foray into the capital, in part because we used the underground and in part because my hands were...

My plan was for a walk and yoga. I ended up going all around the reservoir talking to Moldovan Ivan. Before meeting this Russian-speaking...

As the Goddess tends hornets, the badgers badger wasps. I have seen a few wasps' nests that have been dug up by badgers. At least, that's...

The woodland is littered with acorns and I have seen so many dropped branches this long dry summer. I really don't recall so many in 2022...

Once I had a blog called "How will I fuck this one up?" It was about how there's a point where you think a painting will be really nice,...

This was a day of rain showers interspersed with the bright, clean light of gaps between clouds. I went to visit Sentinel Trees - there...

There I was, miserable at the end of the garden, and suddenly a robin showed up. And this robin behaved like Tane... I am sure it must be...

As well as spotting all the fruit in the last post, I was also struck by the animals and birds. At the start of the walk, I watched...

I had read a nice email about Lammas before heading out for my walk - you can see it here . And I had been thinking about Lammas too,...

To give up on ambition. I think "writing a book" was my earliest ambition. I had other dreams: a handsome adventurous husband (dark,...

In the garden one morning, I saw a little robin hopping around. It was completely unafraid. In fact, it fell asleep in front of me. I...

I went to the wood to spend time with Kairos, but first I did yoga under another oak. I was listening to Robert Macfarlane's Is a River...