Notes From The Common
Notes From the Common: February 2025
Ancient Deciduous Forests During February, the Common can look bleak and bare. In winter it is an open moorland that often seems asleep under a dense blanket of mist. Although the landscape in its height is full of bracken, gorse, grasses, heather, mosses and...
Notes From The Common: January 2025
January is the mis dig du - the dark angry month - according to the Welsh 12th Century poet Dafydd ap Gwilym. But the days are getting lighter one crow’s foot at a time and by the end of the month there will be a sense that change is on the horizon. ...
Notes from the Common
November 2023 In Welsh, the first of November is known as Calan Gaeaf. It is the first day of winter for the Celtic nations of Britain and Ireland. Throughout these lands many neolithic cairns were placed in such a way that they were directly hit by the light of dawn...