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Country diary: Caught in the web of a spinning goddess | Country diary

Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: To sit and watch a garden spider at work is surprisingly moving

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25, Sep, 2023 @4:30 AM

Country diary: Care is contagious – so I take my litter-picker to the old railway path | Josie George

Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: This stretch of edge-land is bursting with cow parsley, brambles and buttercups that deserve to exist without our rubbish

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19, Jun, 2023 @4:30 AM

Country diary: A generous, loving old soul is this tree | Josie George

Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: I’ve been watching the big lime tree from my bed, where I must spend most of my day. It’s time we got properly acquainted

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22, Mar, 2023 @5:30 AM

Country diary: A beauty festooned with nature’s baubles

Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: The beautyberry’s colour is pure eccentric confidence, pure defiance

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26, Dec, 2022 @5:30 AM

Country diary: Drought has turned the garden into a wasteland

Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: It feels like sitting in a crypt – I am surrounded by the skeletons of dried perennials

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26, Sep, 2022 @4:30 AM

Country diary: Reaching out to the starlings on the wire

Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: They are angry and agitated. As they shout this to the world, they bring me out of my four walls

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27, Jun, 2022 @4:30 AM

Country diary: The first warm-enough day of the year to just lie and listen

Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: While others take this cue to get busy in the garden, I’ve made it my ritual to take a pause first

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29, Mar, 2022 @4:30 AM

Country diary: I ask the dark sky to show me a nice bird today – it obliges

Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: My vision isn’t good at the moment, but this old railway line grants me bullfinch, fungus and blood-ripe berries

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29, Jan, 2022 @5:30 AM

Country diary: Nature watching on a rainy day is a new, magical frontier for me

Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: I need willpower and adaptations to venture outside, but the lush green graveyard rewards me handsomely

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30, Oct, 2021 @4:30 AM

Country diary: the communal joy of an urban wildflower walk

Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: We grow here together in inconvenient places, squatters sharing space and predicament

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30, Jul, 2021 @4:30 AM

Country diary: all of life lies in the planted seed

Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: I plant French marigold, calendula and nasturtium. This is the first hopeful step to turning my yard into a small wilderness

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29, Apr, 2021 @4:30 AM