Hello! I'm back from the word mines with a book draft submitted and video about Chinese lanterns.

I'm celebrating and skewering High Victorian Garden Design in an online talk on Tuesday morning - part of the Gardens Trust's brilliant 'A history of Gardens' series. Come! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-of...

Longing for the days when papers ended with a shrug

Wormcast - I'd like this in bronze outside my company HQ - destroys most corporate art. (from Darwin's 2nd most essential book: The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action of Worms)

#Naturewriting

Birch fang. Blood-dipped. Very scary. Nature red in tooth on floor

#Naturewalk

We got a pheasant in ours this morn. Fitting for my unwelcome new reputation!

There’s been some criticism of the garden media elites and demigods recently, but what EYE want to know is when these so called ‘experts’ will be brave enough to put knobs-out watering back in their books?? It’s been 629 years!! and you call yourselves the forefront!?