Mary Montague
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Country diary: Facing the flax – this city was once built on the stuff - AOL (opens the original)
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In my hands is a brownish-grey hank of flax yarn. I twine it between my fingers to feel the thread’s strength and admire the fibres’ diffuse sheen. Along with fruit and vegetables, it’s the produce of our Friends of the Field community garden. It’s also the work of Merle, whose love of textile crafts has led her creative process right back to growing flax. Flax yarn is used to make linen, a fabric that is folded into Belfast’s history. During the 19th century, the city was a global powerhouse of
Country diary: Solar eclipse night was a social phenomenon – who cares if it was cloudy? - AOL (opens the original)
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“Eclipses be – predicted – / And Science bows them in –” wrote the poet Emily Dickinson. As last Wednesday’s solar eclipse was bowed in across my news apps, those lines resonated with me. Dickinson’s masterly use of dashes to suspend the word “predicted” mirrored my experience of the Met Office’s forecast, which kept me teetering between hope and dismayall day and for days before. Ahead of the appointed time, we had scouted the hills for a commanding view of the western horizon, and to get a sen
Country diary: A magical encounter with a ‘fairy bird’ not seen here for 30 years - AOL (opens the original)
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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. “Fairy bird” is the name given to the red-necked phalarope by the Irish naturalist Robert Lloyd Praeger after he encountered the species in this area during the early 1900s. As we walked, the habitat restoration that drew this diminutive wader back to breed here in 2015, after an absence of mo
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