Monthly Archives: October 2013

A riot of red berries by the roadside. And in the fields, these first days of Autumn, at early evening, a freshness in the night air, brisk and uncloying sweet. It was so before my house was built, and will be so after I’ve … Continue reading →

I mentioned my grandfather in my post yesterday. I can see him in my memory now as he went out on his morning walk. He wore a flat cap and overcoat which was rarely buttoned. ‘You look like a tramp’, … Continue reading →

Riches. For a few moments I was 10 years old again …. I nearly didn’t come across them, because I had been lazily tempted to turn home after visiting the bridge over the willow brook, mentioned here recently. (There is … Continue reading →

It’s a time of life, for me, to gather things together; and things I would discard I find that I would keep. Another year past, if measured by the sowing and the reaping, though, in my case, only a few … Continue reading →