Over to you, Babycakes

Over to you, Babycakes

Tales of the City, a 10-book series about life in San Francisco from the 1970s onwards are my all-time favourite books. The characters created by Armistead Maupin have accompanied me through all of my adult life. Michael ‘Mouse’ Tolliver. Mary Ann Singleton. Brian...
The truth about queer nature

The truth about queer nature

It’s been a full week since the Supreme Court made its landmark ruling about gender. In case you’ve missed it, what happened is that a group from Scotland appealed a ruling that had been made in the Scottish courts about whether trans women could take places on Boards...
Rewilding Education – the first chapter

Rewilding Education – the first chapter

Preface From my vantage point, in a chair rather precariously balanced at the top of a ladder, my eyes survey the landscape. There is water, so much water, more than I have ever seen here before. The pools at the bottom of the hill are expanding, and I see birds, and...
Being a magpie with Mary Oliver

Being a magpie with Mary Oliver

She said that sometimes there are no rules. And for some reason that was reassuring.   We went down to the shore. On an ordinary, extraordinary day. And filled our pockets with lichen and seeds. Molly flew by in a tiny plane Checking we weren’t taking her lover’s...