Continue reading “Exploring Our Sussex Downland Villages”“The heart can be happy on these great downs, so much are they a part of England, with their close sheep bitten paths and always the wind blowing the grasses.”
Richard Jefferies
Author: Richard Sutton
I'm a lover of the English countryside through the seasons,wildlife, gardens and nature poetry. Married with 4 grandchildren we are retired and now live in a West Sussex village..................
Tadpoles, Tulips and a Kingfisher
The wildlife pond awakes with frogspawn and tadpoles. The garden has been decorated by tulips and we have a surprise local kingfisher.
Continue reading “Tadpoles, Tulips and a Kingfisher”Gerard Manley Hopkins in Spring
Spring’s ephemeral but exquisite beauty inspired many of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poems and his Journal. In his own words this wonderful season is ‘all in a rush with richness‘.
Continue reading “Gerard Manley Hopkins in Spring”Easter Dawn
Earth began in a garden. It was in another garden on that first Easter Day that Earth’s New Dawn took place. It has changed everything.
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