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Country diary: The joy of growing something from nothing | Anita Roy
Wellington, Somerset: Our local Transition Town group is turning a scrubby field into a forest garden – and the word is spreading
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13, Jan, 2023 @5:30 AM
Country diary: Barn owls make the best listeners | Anita Roy
Smeatharpe, Devon: Pristine plumage, with a beak like rose marble – to be so close to this bird is astonishing
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30, Nov, 2022 @5:30 AM
Country diary: A meat-eater among the moss
Blackdown Hills, Somerset-Devon border: We’re slurping through the bog, in search of a jewelled carnivore with a sunny name
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15, Sep, 2022 @4:30 AM
Country diary: It’s never too late to start a new tradition
Ashbrittle, Somerset: Gathering here to dress the old well started in lockdown as a way to connect to each other and the local landscape. Now we are in year three
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30, Jul, 2022 @4:30 AM
Country diary: If you want to feel giddy and small, look up at the sky
M5, Somerset: Clouds only last for minutes, constantly dissolving and reforming. But what grandeur in that short life
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27, May, 2022 @4:30 AM
Country diary: An unassuming chapel, full of death and life
Ayshford, Devon: It sits alone, tucked between canal and motorway, with centuries-old carvings that remind us of our mortality
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31, Mar, 2022 @4:30 AM
Country diary: Winter finally comes to these woods
Staple Hill, Somerset: The icy air quickens the blood and tautens everything with its astringent sting
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22, Jan, 2022 @5:30 AM
Nothing sparks the imagination like fungi foraging
Runnington, Somerset: These miniature masterpieces often have fabulously apt names
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22, Nov, 2021 @5:30 AM
Country diary: an army of volunteers is no match for the Himalayan balsam
Wellington, Somerset: We pull it up for hours but eventually retreat, beaten by this invasive, fast proliferating weed
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27, Sep, 2021 @4:30 AM
Country diary: these wild grasses whisk me back to childhood
Wellington, Somerset: there are a bewildering number of species bursting forth, conjuring memories of summers past
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26, Jul, 2021 @4:30 AM
Country diary: I walk through beaver country, hoping against hope
Otterford, Somerset: I glimpse a swirl of water in the river and there it is – a real-life beaver, full of wild and wonderful purpose
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24, May, 2021 @4:30 AM
Country diary: cutting-edge technology from the stone age
Wellington, Somerset: The blade is shaped like a toucan’s bill and the long wooden handle has the pleasing curve of a well-balanced spine
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22, Mar, 2021 @5:30 AM
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