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I love this time of year - meditative, quiet, no-one about. I even love the grey, cold days. There's space to think and dream without the...

The year is turning the corner and, maybe because I'm an October baby, it's my favourite time. I feel a sort of thrill at the thought of...

Working freelance means working at home for most and bee-vering away in the spare bedroom or at the dining room table has served me well...

Along with my obsession with flints I've realised I have a fascination with found things full stop. When I look around, the cottage is...

I love art but don't have the funds to buy it often. So it's fortunate that the fields around the cottage yield so many beautiful things...

The mulberry tree - the first tree of around fifteen fruit, nut and shade trees we planted here and there around the meadow. The fruit...

So where do the four bees live? Our 'hives' are two thatched cottages standing close together on a bank beside a quiet country road,...

So you might be wondering who's in the hive on the edge of the meadow. The Solitary Bee is your blogger, a freelance writer working from...

It’s midsummer, a warm day humming its own tune. Flowers and grasses are moving to and fro in the breeze like tipsy revellers waving...