I didn't take a picture of my lunch but can I offer what we've been living off for a few weeks now instead?

- crumble, stuffed roast, sauce, jam, jelly, sticky loaf, baked with goats cheese, cinnamon topped in porridge with brunøst - raw in your hand from a tree? You maniac! (Crunches into one)

I've been told to practise reading poetry in public. So today I did a nerve-wracking thing...

To ease myself into this I chose Mary Oliver's words. Like a friend guiding me painting and so here they are

Book club link:

open.substack.com/pub/jenratcl...

#MaryOliver #Aqua #Books #NaturePoetry

The sky has truly broken this afternoon. The fire is stoked and a thousand invisible feet are dancing on the canal.

Here is a preview of my piece on our first autumn aboard, available to listen as you get cosy...

Here↘️
jenratcliffe.substack.com/p/mooring-in...

#podcast #cosy #fireside #storytime

#DailyNature

Gold ripples into rosey blue underneath autumn's dusk percussion.

Roosting, false migrations, parliamentary chuckles. Long tailed tit gives punctuation to persistent trickles of chipper robin, stuttering moorhen. Ending on sombre wayfarers: blackbird and magpie

#NatureWriting #Sunset

#Day17 #DailyNature

The blackbird is resting in red rowan again.

Whose hue changes in light, crimson curved in morning to punch pink at night. Which hue wards off witches? And how could magic detract magic?

If protection is a spell, then surely there's witch within the wood?

#folk