Our few weeks in England are a mix of family, history and bluebell hunting – over two decades have passed since I last saw the Spring spectacle of masses of small flowers growing together and forming a literal carpet of vivid blue in woodland shade. This is the first time we’ve been back at the […]
Tag: nature
Water, Water, Everywhere…
Our little corner of the world doesn’t make international news much, and it’s usually bad news that travels – I learned of the Christchurch earthquake because I was listening to BBC radio and heard it on their news. Often the only way we know we’ve made it on a global scale is when our phones […]
Green-Fingered
My mum always said that her fingers were as green as they looked. Despite her best efforts (and the chivvying of her husband and children to do the same) our family garden looked, at best, tidy, at worst overgrown and weedy. Her gardening DNA strand runs through me like a buttercup root runs through a […]