Victoria Wood and Wild Therapy

“We’d like to apologise to viewers in the North: it must be awful for them.” Someone from Kent, who I don’t think was quoting Victoria Wood, said this to me once. He said it must have been dreadful to have grown up with such ugliness, industrialisation and whatnot....

Supporting Wildness

Monday, in the garden The afternoon is moving into the evening, I’m sitting in the sun in my garden, in late July. I’m watching the cabbage white butterflies dance before me, immersed in the vegetation around me, French beans nestling into my right elbow,...