Meadows And Mortality
Regular readers of these occasional notes will know I’ve been gradually forming and managing a meadow area in our country garden since I came to live at the Corner house nine years ago.. The tough grasses have been weakened through autumn seeding of yellow rattle, with various meadow flower mixes to follow. Before seeding I…
Monumental Tales
Our medieval themed treats for the week away in Suffolk included visits to two Grade I listed buildings with interlinked family ties. The first was the parish church of St Nicholas in the neighbouring parish of Denston, regarded as one of the finest late perpendicular village churches in England. (https://shct.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Denston-Suffolk.pdf) We had a chat with…
Lodes, Rodes and Sedge
There’s some quiet magic at work when you enter the world of Wicken Fen. Coming from the England of stone walls, fast streams, lush valleys and high moors I’ve nursed a lifelong need to sample the exact opposite. Finally I got the chance to do just that, in this corner of Cambridgeshire, where horizontal and…
Past Present
Its floors complain with every tread, soft echoes of its long since dead…A stubborn, time-worn, tender place. (From a poem by Christopher Skaife) Leaving Norwich we drove southwards into Suffolk. A winding country lane and the turn off we were looking out for. Down a rutted unmade sunken track, concrete ford over dried up stream,…
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STEPHEN TOMLIN 