The resilience of the gardener
A beautiful image of resilience despite decades of war and years of drought: a green, tended and elaborate garden. Rory Stewart is humbled by this and other signs of precious normality. ‘Despite twenty-four years of war and four years of drought, the grass was...
Green power
No, not wind turbines, nor solar panels. This is the green power that raises ‘purple spires to the midsummer sky’. Foxglove power or, quoting Dylan Thomas, ‘the force that through the green fuse drives the flower’. I planted a few foxgloves...
The advent of May
There was a time when I could half read poetry in various ancient forms of French, provençal or Occitan, at least enough to have the sense of their meaning and loveliness. This is one I noted decades ago, which is no time at all if you consider that it dates from the...Yes, sign me up!
