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Wordless Wednesday

September 14, 2016

Soft, downy quince (Cydonia oblonga ‘Meeches Prolific’)

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Plot to Plate: Stuffed Summer Squash

Allotment 96B: The Unusual, the Innovative and the Just Plain Weird…

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I'm excited about the publication of Women on Nature this Thursday. Edited by Katharine Norbury, it includes contributions by 100 writers from Julian of Norwich up to the present day. Can't quite believe my name is listed next to Virginia Woolf!

Afternoon of spring firsts by the River Lee - reed warblers, sedge warblers & high over the mayflower meadow, oh joy, here come the swifts!

Delighted & astonished in equal measure to be longlisted for the @spreadthewordwriters Life Writing Prize 2021!! My piece includes this fabulous little guy... 😊

Might be parky today, but the cherry plums haven't noticed... #springsigns

Misty reflections on the river this afternoon...

Lovely to open my January copy of Gardeners' World Magazine and see the first of my nature series, starting with making fat cakes to attract birds to the garden. Not long now until the Big Garden Birdwatch...

Misty over the reedbeds this morning & the song thrushes giving it some welly.

Nightfall over the reedbeds, rejoicing in a bit of solitary time, just the crows keeping me company & an alder watching my back. Moonlight pooling on the boardwalk as I set off home.

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