Living alongside wildlife is wonderful. It is calming, restorative and endlessly fascinating. It brings foxes into the garden on summer mornings, sparrowhawks flashing past the kitchen window and tawny owls calling from the woods after dark. It reminds you, almost every day, that we are still surrounded by wild lives, quietly going about their own…
The Window and The Coal Tit The Sound of Something Losing It happened the way these things always do, with a dull, stupid thud that is not dramatic enough for what it means. Not a crash. Not a smash. Just the sound of something very small losing an argument with something very clean. I put…