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Cool Womb, Fathoms Deep
A morning dip in the local lake …. Cool womb, Dark mirror. What lies beneath That satin skin? Bright foil As ducks come down, Reeds, Submerged branches Waiting like a petrified forest For divers. Thrill of fear Fathoms deep; Of mouths with teeth. Brim with life, with death. I cut you, I caress you From…
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Update on Cleavers And Carrot Ferment
Tasted great after 6 days, tangy and delicious in a turmeric and prawn root soup with soya yoghurt… Only surprise was the sadly deceased ladybird I found once I was halfway through the jar. And the hair!! Sorry! Apparently fermented guillemot birds were buried under mud and considered a wedding feast delicacy in Iceland however,…
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Spring Tonics in the Ouzel Valley
Today I harvested handfuls of fresh juicy Cleavers, bursting with vitamins welcome after winter’s salted runner beans. I decided on making Cleavers & Carrot Lacto-Ferment, the cleavers worked well last year with a phenomenal taste…I will return with the results. Cow Parsley (Anthriscus Sylvestris) and Hemlock (Conium maculatum) are also out side by side,…
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In blackest night….
Winter’s bite…. In blackest night grows the seed of Life Blue frost in our pleading veins we sink deep… Beneath snows, and wish for light to come again; but needful is this rest, this still; like death to life is needful the black earth womb to the seed of light. Winter’s bite; Reality, sometimes grim…
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Winter Nature Collage
Stuck for nature-based things to do in miserable grey January? Get out on a dry day with some secateurs and a bag and harvest some dried stems, fallen bark, seedheads…then back at base have a play glueing them to a piece of hardboard or canvas to create textural worlds of winter sensuality….try contrasting opposites such…
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Pine Needle Basket – pics!
A finished (nearly!) pine needle basket made using short (4-5in) pine needles from several different species of trees..fiddly but fun, and very satisfying, and all you have had to pay for is a washer and some string! I have dyed some of the needles with turmeric (the yellow ones) and used reddish needles and ivory…
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The Briar Basket: Creating A Friend out of an Enemy.
Look about you at nature, in the gorgeous hues of fire of Autumn’s transition. So we’ve picked the rosehips and the sweet chestnuts and made soup and nourishing biscuits against the impending chill. What now? This is the season craftspeople and hunter gatherers of old would have been out busily harvesting not just food but…
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On the Tail of Typha’s Gold
The scene…a golden afternoon in June, at a local muddy pond. The character, a thin ragged yet energetic female leaps off her bike with Midas like glee and pushes down a thickening trail of turquoise-green leaf spears taller than her plaited head, broad soled battered brown sandals squelching and sinking into the mire. After a…
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