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The Colour Olive Green
Olive Green, one of the most elusive of all the greens. The colour olive green always seems to be the colour of the trees in the distance but close up, the olive green seems to slip away and the greens that are left are altogether brighter and lighter. Green is the colour that most us…
Read MoreShakespeare’s Flowers
When William Shakespeare wrote of love and despair he often turned to the language of flowers to help him. Shakespeare’s flowers lay scattered throughout some of his most notable works and they are contained in some of his most remembered lines. In Elizabethan times flowers and herbs carried with them symbolic meaning. They were used…
Read MoreHow do Snowflakes form?
The snowflake is a uniquely beautiful structure created from water. How do snowflakes form? Compare one snowflake with another. No two snowflakes are identical yet all snowflakes are created from the same simple compound that is water. Two hydrogen atoms combining with one oxygen. How then is it possible that they are all different? ‘How…
Read MoreFolklore and Landscape
An Island where folklore and landscape mingle so that there should almost be a word to describe it. Our modern disconnect with our landscape leaves us bereft of understanding the tales and folklore that attend to it. Those stories passed from generation to generation may have grown and altered course over hundreds of years of…
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