Wild and Wonderful

  Polar Corona , my poetry pamphlet on Antarctic exploration ... is out and available for £7.99 (in the UK). For further details, click here...

  And the mice? See page 14   TODAY'S THE DAY... Are you looking for a stocking filler? Or a small gift for yourself? Take a look here ....

I am excited to say that I have just received advance copies of Polar Corona , my prize-winning 'crown-of-sonnets' poetry pamphlet, ...

    Back in May I blogged about this book on my Poetry and Other Writing blog. In case you missed it, I shall re-post my words here. Juliet...

Littoral Press, £8.50   Those who follow my blog posts, and perhaps particularly this one , will know that (in normal times) I enjoy wa...

My 'Puffin' Photo Challenge yielded a bumper crop of 5-line poems. I have posted ten on The Glow of Emerald Light , my lockdown b...

Where have the weeks and months gone since the start of lockdown? I am finding it hard to get my head around the fact that we are already...

A few years ago a couple of local friends suggested that we should go and see the spring flowers in the churchyard of St Mary's chur...

I had seen records of the Garden Tiger on the web so I knew the adult moth was on the wing, but I had not expected to encounter this larv...

  I did my RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch survey today. The weather was cold and clear, with a fair bit of sunshine. The gusting wind had die...

I am just back from the Suffolk Flora Preservation Trust Poetry Competition (SFPT). Many congratulations to Tim Gardiner for winning the...

Painted Lady, Walled Garden, Aberdour Castle In my previous post I included a photograph of a stained glass window on Holy Island,...