Browsing: diary

At last, the sun shone after weeks of rain. While the distant Welsh hills were draped in snow, here on the Wirral it was dry and…

On a low rise, beyond a screen of trees, behind a small holiday park in the Yorkshire Wolds, a brick obelisk stands incongruously at the edge…

As unmissable as new year’s fireworks, the wolf moon held the heavens for the first few nights of January, casting an unearthly radiance over everything, night almost…

I love that our house is constructed from stone hewn from the ground just metres away. The original mortar and plaster would have been similarly local,…

My local nature reserve used to be a Victorian rubbish dump, but now it is full of wildlife. And if you look closely on old logs…

As I drive north through Angus, birch and rowan begin to replace ash and oak, and by the time I reach the foot of the glen,…

Dika Ofama’s “Kachifo (Till the Morning Comes),” Naishe Nyamubaya’s “Black Snake” and Azata Soro’s “Diary of a Goat Woman” won big at a vibrant Open Doors…

Each May, hundreds of thousands of high school students from across the United States take the Advanced Placement exam for English Literature and Composition. Each June,…

John Harris confuses Virginia Woolf’s admittedly vicious diary entry about disabled people with her firmly held beliefs in referring to her “grim ideas” and associating her…

There were none here yesterday, and by the end of tomorrow they’ll have deliquesced and disappeared, but for now the neatly mown grass under our feet was…