England 2 West Germany 3 The summers of my childhood were hot. If there was rain, and surely there must have been, I don’t remember it. To wear us out, mother often took me and my cousins on long…
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26: Trees
Common does you no justice Alder Alnus glutinosa/common alder Well, at least maddened Sweeney had a good word to say for you: ‘Delightful is thy hue’. Tell that to the spirits of dead warriors; their heads, stained yellow by…
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26: Armistice
The Irish poet Francis Ledwidge was an Irish nationalist and a British soldier who died fighting against the Kaiser, Willhelm II, at Ypres in the battle of Passchendale in 1917
Continue Reading26 Postcodes: SA33 4SD
26 Postcodes pairs writers with postcodes from across the UK, and asks them to make a response to the place and its significance. SA33 4SD is the postcode for the Boathouse in Laugharne – the last home of the…
Continue ReadingLost in the mists and mellow fruitfulness
Season of mists… John Keats The school run this morning, and a mist was hanging over the Ochill mountains near my home. In the sharp sunlight of a Scottish September morning, the mist was bright white, like a linen…
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