Marchmont
A while back we were in the audience for a talk at Newcastle Central library, part of a nationwide book launch, given by the academic, multi-award winning writer and broadcaster Dr James Fox. (https://www.drjamesfox.co.uk/) James had been all over the UK unearthing the vital if under appreciated role of craft makers in forging our country’s…
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…
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STEPHEN TOMLIN 