HeyJaredMary Montague
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Country diary: Facing the flax â this city was once built on the stuff | Mary Montague (opens the original)
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Botanic Meadow, Belfast: I visit my local community garden, and the woman who has returned to growing this graceful crop that eventually becomes linen In my hands is a brownish-grey hank of flax yarn. I twine it between my fingers to feel the threadâs strength and admire the fibresâ diffuse sheen. Along with fruit and vegetables, itâs the produce of our Friends of the Field community garden. Itâs also the work of Merle, whose love of textile crafts has led her creative process right back
Country diary: Solar eclipse night was a social phenomenon â who cares if it was cloudy? | Mary Montague (opens the original)
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Lisnabreeny, Co Down: There was little fanfare beforehand, but when the moment arrived, so did a group of strangers with a sense of occasion âEclipses be â predicted â / And Science bows them in ââ wrote the poet Emily Dickinson. As last Wednesdayâs solar eclipse was bowed in across my news apps, those lines resonated with me. Dickinsonâs masterly use of dashes to suspend the word âpredictedâ mirrored my experience of the Met Officeâs forecast, which kept me teetering betwee
Country diary: A magical encounter with a âfairy birdâ not seen here for 30 years | Mary Montague (opens the original)
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Annagh Marsh, County Mayo, Ireland: I hold my breath as I watch a red-necked phalarope darting about, tweezering food. Without habitat restoration, it wouldnât be here On a sunny morning a few weeks ago, Dave Suddaby, the reserves manager with the conservation organisation BirdWatch Ireland, led me across the machair to where the fairy birds were nesting in Annagh Marsh. âFairy birdâ is the name given to the red-necked phalarope by the Irish naturalist Robert Lloyd Praeger after he encount
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