‘I really like it. It looks beautiful, the colours are lush and it’s a refreshing perspective on the world. I love the idea of excellent dates engaging with Pliny’s figs and mushrooms, your thought provoking note on innocence, and the concept of the songs of men deep in the heart of grape buds’ – Nicki

Eyes to the light

Eyes to the light

A servant is taken advantage of once too often and swears never again to lower herself, literally or figuratively.  Note the task demanded was 'on her afternoon off'.  Joyce's stint as a general maid in a grocer's household was cut short only when the grocer's wife...

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The dignity we seek

The dignity we seek

It's years since I noted this quote and it has recently made its way to the front of the nuannaarpoq pipeline. But only reading it again now do I see how much it resonates with the urgencies of rebalancing our relationship with the natural world around us, and with...

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Otter mockery

Otter mockery

As you may have noticed, I have a soft spot for the playfulness of otters, and a growing collection of examples soon to be gathered together in a dedicated page. In this case, the merry otter watches a human, who had been chasing him, take a tumble and a dip, and...

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Leonine concentration

As I get older, I have a stronger sense of needing this kind of concentration.  So many dreams and projects to realise, filling more space than the (likely) time available...

Surrounded by sky

The Swiss explorer and travel writer, Ella Maillart (1903-97), spent the second half, or third age, of her adventurous life in the Alpine village of Chandolin at 2,000 metres. We...

A record of love

Thoreau's journals have many comments on the nature of journals, of which this one is closest to my own impetus for writing one, albeit patchily: I put off writing for...

Dancing summer days

They are still with us, although we're far from that beautifully named, white-spumed 'maned Aegean'.  Eke them out, enjoy each and every one and then bask through the winter months...

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