January 2026
The new month and New Year seem to have brought with them new temperatures! Here on the Lincolnshire marshes the air is now bitingly cold and the thermometer is showing daytime readings only just above zero. The birds clear all the food I now give them twice daily, always a sign that things are pretty tough for them out there. After all the busyness of Christmas, January brings calm, and an opportunity to look ahead and take stock. The calendars newly hung, with birthdays and
December 2025
Living on the flat Lincolnshire coastal marsh, the sunrise, its timing and position is an ever-present part of my journey through each year. Almost as far as it can be from its summer place, the sunrise now it fills my kitchen window with its wild pink brilliance. The Pagan feast of Yule, celebrating the turning wheel of the year, as we move from darkness to light, sits easily alongside Christmas, both appearing in the strange darkness of December; a time full of mystery and
