This is the view from the top of Birdlip Hill on the Cotswold escarpment looking over the Vale of Severn towards Gloucester. It must be one of the grandest in England.
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The Dawn Chorus at Knepp
Re-wilding at Knepp has brought back the sounds of old England. The magic of a dawn chorus with echoes of Eden remind us of yesteryear.
Continue reading “The Dawn Chorus at Knepp”Cautious Spring with John Clare
After a February fill-dyke of too much rain, we turn the page in John Clare’s Shepherd’s Calendar only to find that March wildly comes with its many weathers, bringing with it a cautious Spring.
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The ford across the Darent river at Eynsford, Kent in winter flood. This is the painter, Samuel Palmer’s ‘Valley of Vision’ with its own historic Roman villa and two castles.
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