I love this time of year. The energy stirring underfoot, snowdrops and daffodils out in full force, birdsong increasing, the tunes changing and light coming back into our lives. Time to celebrate Imbolc, the first of the Spring Festivals in ‘The Wheel of The Year’. One of the many pre-Christian festivals of the ancient […]

 “The river is A frozen place Held still beneath The trees of lace. The sky is low, The wind is gray, (sic) The radiator, Purrs all day”. Part of a poem about January by John Updike. I can see the ‘Trees of lace’, all around in the woods but weirdly I can also see an […]

  The sporadic moments of warmth we had in February which held such promise for March, quickly faded away as the bitter, cold weather arrived early in the month. Snow arrived in Bristol and in the North of England, here on The Lizard it was dry and bitterly cold. Warm days visited us in mid […]