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The strangeness of things
This is from Clare. She says she sees magpies riding sheep nearly every day. This is from my garden. What ARE these bugs??? In the wood,...

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Aug 11 min read
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Missing them
I've been thinking about urban foxes who have developed more rounded heads and muzzles than rural foxes. We are cutifying them. As I was...

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Jul 311 min read
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Re-visiting Aulus
This video shows two of the interesting halls affecting oak trees. Also, the Sun Summoner (with crow); the Bee Oak Who Guards The Elm...

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Jul 302 min read
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Creatures of the wood
Yep, more tree-eaters. As I was sitting by Kairos, the squirrel and the muntjacs were doing their usual circuits about me. In the video...

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Jul 291 min read
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The One and the Many
I came across this in London. You can find out more here . The stone of course reminded me of the Stones - and on that subject, Kairos...

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Jul 282 min read
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Kairos minus a limb
I'd been to see the Goddess on the way. She had been more than usually talkative. As I parted the trees to greet Kairos, I had a shock: a...

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Jul 272 min read
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An astonishing find!
This community garden is right in the middle of the busy West End! What a haven it is! And I had never known that it existed. They have...

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Jul 261 min read
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Another walk in the parks
I took another route through Primrose Hill and Regent's Park this time and was astonished to see healthy elms in both places. I think...

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Jul 251 min read
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To be a pilgrim
The pilgrimage was organised by Primal Gathering and was led by Guy Hayward . We walked a circular route, starting and ending at Avebury...

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Jul 243 min read
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Mother and child
Mrs B was being pursued by a fledgling and both were content to stay fairly close to me. They were waiting for me to put out fresh food....

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Jul 232 min read
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Making wands
Apology: there are no pictures of the hazel actually growing. A friend had asked me to make two wands. I went to the woods and realised I...

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Jul 223 min read
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Splitters and clumpers
Which are you? I was thinking about this as I was walking through London and looking at people's faces. There comes a point when you...

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Jul 212 min read
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Ashes to ashes
It is getting to be a familiar sight: the thinned canopies of ash trees, dead branches reaching accusingly into the impure air. The trees...

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Jul 202 min read
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The children
A pleasure to see two young dunnocks with no signs (yet) of avian pox. The jays are noisily present. I actually managed to film a parent...

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Jul 191 min read
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London life
I will forego writing as this is a LONG video. But I really enjoyed the crows and squirrels!!! It was all filmed in Hyde Park and St...

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Jul 181 min read
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Back to Kairos
The force of the ordinary . . . can be obscured, reduced, or eliminated . . . by a lack of appreciation of the richness of its...

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Jul 171 min read
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Back to Black-a-tor
You can never see too many oaks; nor can you spend too much time in temperate rainforest. And so, Gary, Elise and I went-a-wandering back...

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Jul 162 min read
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The Grove Oak
I have mentioned this idea before, but now I offer the quotation... I think it possible that some of the disagreements in the debate...

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Jul 151 min read
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Sunrise
I actually conversed with two trees at Cabilla. the first was down by the water. This oak had a divided stem, and also I was thinking...

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Jul 143 min read
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Cabilla
Ever since I first read about Merlin Hanbury-Tenison, his book Our Oaken Bones, and his project to restore the temperate rainforest...

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Jul 132 min read
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