A Warm Welcome
Hello, and a warm and friendly welcome to this beautiful little website! It’s packed with around 1000 helpful, creative and interesting posts, on how to restore our green and pleasant land.
You’ll sure to find something interesting to read! So please enjoy the posts, and blessings on your journey!
Village fetes, country lanes, people saying ‘mustn’t grumble’, beans on toast, haymaking in June, stinging nettles, seaside piers, Ordnance Survey maps, crumpets, hot water bottles and drizzly Sundays. American Bill Bryson (on what he loves about England)
Sometimes I come across a tree: giving pleasure to a pilgrim, shade to a cow, berries to a bird, beauty to its surroundings, health to its neighbours, leaves to the soil. Asking nothing in return. The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my poem and my prayer. Satish Kumar
Today, the real England sometimes feels like 50 million people driving around a motorway forever. A bit of Bluewater in every town. Rural pubs are disappearing, leaving many villages bereft not of a place to drink, and focus for community. French poet Hilaire Belloc wrote ‘When have lost your inns, drown your empty selves. For you will have lost the last of England’ Paul Kingsnorth
At the moment, the entire global economy seems to be built on the model of digging things up from one hole in the ground on one side of the earth, transporting them around the world, using them for a few days, and sticking them in a hole in the ground, on the other side of the world. George Monbiot