Yesterday was cold in a poncey, Southern English kind of way – you know, a slight frost in the morning, some condensation on my study window (I’ve turned off the radio in my Bonsai tree’s interest), clear skies (almost)…
Looking out of my study window here in Lewes, UK, yesterday afternoon, I saw four magpies on Brach Mound, the ancient defensive mound that dominates my view. Oh no, I thought, rapidly trying to remember that old nursery rhyme. This…
I cam back from Paris last weekend to a chilly spell here in Lewes, UK. With Claude Monet’s paintings in mind, the ones where he did series of the same scene through different light changes or seasons, I thought I…
Yesterday I left a rainy Paris and arrived in a rainy England but when I got home to Lewes, I had the pleasure of seeing my good neighbour, the prehistoric Brach Mound with its haircut completed. Now you can see…
The beginning of a new week, the sun is shining and the temperatures have risen. It feels like a new season here in Lewes living here as I do next to the prehistoric Brach Mound. It felt doubly like the…
It’s an island of roses illuminated by the September sun against the dark green foliage of the Bronze Age mound at the bottom of my Lewes garden. I’m told we live on a ley line here in this quirky little…
My small town garden here in middle of Lewes, UK, borders onto an ancient defensive mound called Brach Mound. This year the owners of the Mound have decided to let it go wild and, rather like Burnham Woods in Macbeth,…
Brach Mound forms the backdrop to my days here in Lewes, UK. It was part of the Norman castle fortifications and probably Bronze age ones too. It also brings the countryside to me right in the middle of town. It…
I was walking home this morning to my house in Lewes in East Sussex in England and I noticed, at the top of Sun Street, more greenery than there used to be visible from this position. Maybe I was imagining…