The great outdoors: Oxford’s best green spaces
As the sun emerges from its miserable winter enclave, so do students from their rooms, shedding the weighted blankets and hot water bottles of...
Post Diagnosis
"You could tell no one, And it would come anyway."
Diffidence
"non est, ut putas, virtus, pater,
timere vitam, sed malis ingentibus
obstare nec se vertere ac retro dare."
Eggs of butterfly thought to be almost extinct found in Oxfordshire
On 16 January, staff and volunteers from the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) discovered approximately two hundred brown hairstreak butterfly eggs. The...
Drawn to Nature: Flies
Animals come in many shapes and sizes, none more so than flies. There are flies that mimic other species, flies with incredible iridescent bodies,...
Addressing the Unknown
'Let's watch the sun making its paperboy/rounds tapping on the window and shedding/off its flecks of glow'
Soil: On Digging a Hole
"A worm has beaten me to the hole I’m digging;
when I pull apart the soil, I find
a slender punctuation mark in the mud.
Its pink body threads through the dark clay."
Petrichor
"in a quiet hollow on the far side of this field
rain patters through the leaves
like twinkling glass"
Paying Attention
"I wrote that the world feels too much of everything,
that I am so lucky to be in it."
Movement
The energy in the trees was palpable-
at once pulsating and swirling
Friday Favourite: The Uninhabitable Earth
The book currently on top of my ever-growing ‘To Read’ pile
is David Wallace-Well’s 2019 book The Uninhabitable Earth. Based on his
2017 essay of the...
SIMONE, WHOSE HAIR IS THE WORLD
Her golden plumage shivered to a mane
That grew the stalks and limbs of flowers and trees
What follows is an apology
it was different back then; we didn’t know, didn’t understand…
wintercaerig
made its blades stand sentinel and straight,
made the lock stick on the kissing gate
