‘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

A life-loving syllabus

A life-loving syllabus

What a teacher, this god who exhales perfumes and offers to impart his knowledge of nature's flourishing.  And what a syllabus: "I am the genius of clouds and sunshine," answered Frey; and as he spoke, the essences of a hundred perfumes were exhaled from his breath. ...

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On good nature

On good nature

Fielding's comment first appeared on my radar about 35 years ago, then I forgot about it, then found it again when re-reading Joseph Andrews.  Much of Fielding's writing promotes such uncomplicated good nature.  Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of...

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Life is fragile

Life is fragile

A recent article had a doctor refer to our 'short, breakable lives', reminding us of this fragility. Here is Nicolson's take on Homer: Homer knows that life is fragile, love suffers hurt and death comes; and that the moments on a hillside in the springtime, when the...

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Sunlight time

Time pouring down with the sunlight while diaphanous drakeflies dance on the water. A perfect summer scene and one to share at the cusp of summer.

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The bees’ feet

Two zooming micro-miracles singing the arrival of summer - bees' feet shaking heather bells and the 'sap-stealing dodder' twining around furze spikes.

 

'When the bees' feet...

A man on a carpet

Rory Stewart walked long stretches of several countries, including Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. He was therefore struck by the absence of people when he did a sea-to-sea hike along Hadrian's...

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