Vivid Childhood Experiences The Irish poet Seamus Heaney wrote in his essay on William Wordsworth that Wordsworth as a child “imagined he heard the moorlands breathing down his neck” and “he rowed in panic when he thought a cliff was pursuing him across moonlit water.” Wordsworth And His Sister Go Out For A Walk Perhaps … Read more
Introduction We have just added this photograph of a Herdwick sheep to our range of ecards. The original image had a distracting background and this article explains how I removed it without ‘rubbing out’ the delicate edges of the the fleece. Love And Economics The fleece of the Herdwick sheep is a rich brown color, … Read more
These are views of the cathedral city of York in the north of England. The first was taken this month and the second a year and a half ago when the river Ouse burst its banks, as it has done many times. The worst of the most recent floods was in the year 2000 when … Read more