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Archives for June 2020

How my heart in hiding stirred for a bird…

7 June 2020 by Simon Barnes 2 Comments

June 4 There’s no excuse for ever doing a stroke of week here. I may have said that before… writing the words once again from a desk that overlooks seven or eight acres of Norfolk marsh, land we manage for wildlife. I was putting a together a piece for a newspaper when I was called… [Read More]

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A cultured conversation across the Atlantic

4 June 2020 by Simon Barnes 7 Comments

June 3 We are all heirs — and our inheritance comes to us in two ways. It comes in the genes we inherit from our parents and it comes in the culture we inherit from our parents and everybody else we encounter. I was always taught that the great division between humans and “animals” is… [Read More]

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Eddie and I are keeping on the right path…

3 June 2020 by Simon Barnes 5 Comments

June 2 Gary has been back with his tractor. He’s mowed the paths that run around our eight acres of Norfolk marsh. Done a great job. It makes an extraordinary difference to the place. The idea is that the marsh runs wild, so that marsh harriers can hunt over and deer can lie up in… [Read More]

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Wild June and the sweet cheat gone

2 June 2020 by Simon Barnes 12 Comments

June 1  It was the start of 30 Days Wild and Eddie and I were sitting on the common in the late afternoon. A sudden cry, tremendously loud and just behind us: cuckoo!  And then he was flying over us, across us and away, wings shearing the air like an especially sharp pair of scissors. … [Read More]

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