#PatchChat: Outer Dark
‘You won’t get phone reception out here,’ he said, cradling the rifle under one arm and resting his other hand over the barrel. He wore green overalls and wellington boots, with a...
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Summer Past
Snails clung to the slippery stems of the plant. Leaves were stained and dripped with the tears of the clouds and I trundled past in my wellington boots, out for a morose walk...
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Nature Blogging: Why Bother?
One of the most common questions raised whenever someone stumbles across my blog, particularly from those of a non-environmental background is: why bother? Surely it takes up too much time, provides very little in...
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#PatchChat: Creatures of the Wood
On deciding to take my Border Collie for a ‘leg stretching session’, I had the urge to take my camera and photograph…everything! The dragonfly photographed is (I believe) known as a Common Darter....
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#PatchChat: Between Stubbled Wheat Fields and the Railway
Rancid and prolapsed blackberries hang limp amongst the swathes of wilted nettles. My patch along the old railway line is certainly undergoing a significant change. It’s autumn now, I suppose, and there is...
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#PatchChat: Augustinian Agroforests in South Somerset’s July
Portraits of local ‘patches’ are powerful because they are expressions of personal connections with landscapes. As landscapes change so do our connections with the places and species within them and today the changes...
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#PatchChat Life in a Garden Wildlife Patch
The early morning sun shines rays over the top of the fence, illuminating the jumbled mass of green vegetation that is the wildlife patch. No matter how small your garden is, just creating...
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Ronaldo’s Moth
I could never say that I was much of a fan of football. Kicking a “fly-away” as we called them, around the school playground is about the extent of my soccer experience. So...
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Competition in the Garden
Nearly 30 years ago, I moved to a smallholding in West Cornwall. It’s on a very exposed hilltop, with almost constant wind from any direction. At that time the land had been used...
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#PatchChat: Summer on the River Blyth
There really is no place like home. Having arrived back for some much needed TLC following two months surveying in the Highlands, this week I set about reacquainting myself with the local patch. My...
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