The Gentle Hours
26th June The Gentle Hours The current heatwave has waved goodbye to the simple joy of stepping out into the meadow before, or after, nine. The sun is simply too fierce. Sunrise and sunset remain the gentle hours. The hours to tread softly along the meadow paths. Footsteps cooled by dew, silently gathering or evaporating. […]
26th February 2026 ~ A Pool Held by Branches
24th February 2026 ~ A country mile from home
Beyond our own threshold, the land drifts into a different conversation. A country mile or so from home rests an ancient stretch of marsh-soft grassland. The ground here does not hurry. It lifts and falls in long, roly-poly undulations, yielding gently underfoot, as though remembering older patterns of water and grazing. Even the path feels […]
9th February 2026 ~ A world within
A world within This is an image of the back of my eye — a wide-field scan, taken during an ophthalmology review. Clinically, it charts vessels, tissue, patterns of light and shadow. But when I look at it, I see something else entirely. A living landscape. Branching rivers and tributaries. Forest paths and crossing routes. […]
8th February 2026 ~ A light-bulb moment
A light-bulb moment From bulbs hidden beneath the earth, the wild daffodils begin their determined work. First, the leaves — narrow, blue-green blades rising almost unnoticed through moss and leaf litter. Then, at last, the buds appear: pale, sealed tight, faintly translucent, holding their promise close. They really do resemble little light bulbs at this […]
14th January 2026 ~ Small Bright Anchors
A reflective noticing of one tender day — moving from dawn to dusk, from beauty to fear and back again. A piece about love, uncertainty, and the small, bright anchors that help us stay present, even when the light changes temperature. The day ushered in with a hush of colour. A dawn so tender it […]
22nd January 2026 ~ Study in Sunlight
For today’s noticing, I return — as I so often do — to the winter-flowering aconite. I thought I might begin with a passage from my first published book, Reflections of Nature. I titled the piece Study in Sunlight. One dreary February day, I coached myself out of a grey mindset and into my walking […]
12th January 2026 ~ Quiet Courage.
Cladonia cristatella 12th January 2026 Better weather today, though no brighter — heavy cloud resting across the landscape like a winter-weight duvet, pressing down on everything. Inertia felt like the next best thing to sleep. But Neil and I couldn’t rest. We had uneasy news to carry forward. His bypass surgery pre-op and admission date […]
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