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Country diary: A heritage railway visit brings a spring feast for the senses | Susie White
Alston, Cumbria: While curlews glide and lapwings call, the verges are bountiful with flowers – marsh marigolds, melancholy thistle, hawthorn …
Susie White
08, May, 2023 @4:30 AM
Country diary: Iron age speed bumps to slow the enemy
Cademuir Hill, Peebles, Scottish Borders: It’s a day of wild wind and stinging hail, but these defences have withstood everything in this dramatic setting
Susie White
12, Apr, 2023 @4:30 AM
Country diary: Many layers of history in one spot | Susie White
Newbrough, Northumberland: Beneath the monuments to landowning families is a fortlet that predates Hadrian’s Wall by decades
Susie White
13, Mar, 2023 @5:30 AM
Country diary: The Algerian iris is my madeleine | Susie White
Allendale, Northumberland: Honey-scented and fleeting, and with astonishing colours, this winter flower transports me to my childhood
Susie White
09, Feb, 2023 @5:30 AM
Country diary: Honeysuckle twines its way towards the light | Susie White
Allendale, Northumberland: It brings promise every winter at around this time, twisting around branches and becoming just as fat
Susie White
28, Jan, 2023 @5:30 AM
Country diary: A place where the past is close to the surface | Susie White
Allen Banks, Northumberland: On an unseasonal day, I revisit a river and gorge whose landscape wouldn’t be the same without one enterprising woman
Susie White
09, Jan, 2023 @5:30 AM
Country diary: Hills and valleys where packhorses used to tread | Susie White
Killhope Law, Northumberland: We are following the Carrier’s Way, a packhorse route that brought lead ore from one valley to the other
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12, Dec, 2022 @10:39 AM
Country diary: This beach is ever-changing. Today it is black with sea coal
Alnmouth Bay, Northumberland: Once dumped in the water as waste, the coal returns in waving patterns, totally transforming the view
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14, Nov, 2022 @5:30 AM
Country diary: A spectacular wall of dahlias – but the insects are more choosy than me
Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland: This wonderful nursery is home to some 15,000 flowers, and is an interesting test of what lures in the pollinators
Susie White
31, Oct, 2022 @5:30 AM
Country diary: Taking the slow way rewards me with riches
Allendale, Northumberland: Journeying to Hexham on foot takes me to open moor, sheep fields and a high point with views across the Tyne Valley
Susie White
10, Oct, 2022 @4:30 AM
Country diary: Something about early autumn gets under your skin
Corbridge, Northumberland: The harvest mites or ‘chiggers’ are waiting on the tips of grasses for someone to brush past
Susie White
12, Sep, 2022 @4:30 AM
Country diary: Who would live in a keyhole like this?
Allendale, Northumberland: I had found neat semi-circles on the epimedium leaves in my garden, now I know who’s been busy
Susie White
29, Aug, 2022 @4:30 AM
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