“I hadn’t had my daily dose of lurking frogs and chirruping goldfinch flocks for so long now. I hadn’t sat on a bank of moss and grounded my energy into the earth. Instead of wildflower meadows, my dreams were often preoccupied with train timetables and unsaved Word documents. Where had all the wildlife gone from my life?” So writes Jennifer Lane very early in her new book “The Wheel.”
Mark’s most recent Sunday Book Review has him stroling down by the Cornish sea-side (in his imagination, of course), having a look at the superb rock pools to be found there containing many fascinating forms of life – each with its own story – being guided by Cornwall’s own rock pooler par excellence: Heather Buttivant.