Nigeness

In the course of researching my butterfly book, I read as many butterfly poem as I could find – and most of them, barring Emily Dickinson...

 Sad to hear the news that the children's author Allan Ahlberg has died, albeit at a ripe age (unlike his wife and collaborator Janet, w...

 Sadly, the swifts seem to have departed already – at least from Lichfield, where they've had a good summer, thanks to the unusually sea...

 'Watson – the Bradshaw!'   Born on this day in 1800 was the printer and publisher George Bradshaw, whose railway guides proved so u...

 A while back, I wrote about Edward Thomas's justly famous little poem 'Adlestrop' and posted another, very different Adlestrop ...

 From time to time I browse in the Nigeness archives to see what was going on On This Day in past years (there are now 17 of them to choose ...

 With the sun shining again (for one day only, by the look of the forecast), the garden has been alive with butterflies today – gatekeepers,...