I looked up in shock when a dog suddenly ran up to me and its shouting owner directly behind it as I lay on the grass by Ardingly Reservoir. Are you okay? the woman asked. Sorry? I replied. I thought something had happened to you as you were lying so still and for so long, […]
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A quiet moment in our home. My twins Luce and Theo sitting together watching television. They’re aware of each other but ignore me. Theo glances at Luce. What is he thinking? I wonder. Maybe about doing ‘nothing’ together. …”But what I like doing best is Nothing.” “How do you do Nothing?” asked Pooh, after he
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Last week I encountered a rather noisy quartet of geese while my daughter had a riding lesson. It wasn’t a gaggle as apparently you need five geese on the ground to call them this. This honking quartet of domestic white geese were quite a contrast to the quiet goslings with mother goose I watched earlier
Why does a pony roll? My daughter asked me. She just had her first riding lesson. The pony she had ridden had been untacked and let free in a field with other ponies. Soon we watched Smartie rolling from side to side on the ground. Not surprising, I explained, as the pony might have felt
Dawn and dusk are the best times to spot deer. It’s during the first morning light or when the sun ebbs in the evening that Fallow deer move out of their woodland cover to graze in nearby fields or grassland. Near where we live in West Sussex there’s an ideal area for deer spotting – we had seen
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When you’re painting you mix red and yellow to make orange. Orange flowers always make me think of nature as an artist. Orange Begonia flowers. “Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.” Wassily Kandinsky (Russian painter and art theorist) Crocosmia flowers. In my view a patio or a table or a garden border just seems happier
