Crafty Green Poet

This novel interweaves three stories, set around the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. One follows Judith, a young woman on a sea voyage in the mid-19th century, the second follows Hana a marine biologist in the present day, and the third follows Telma...

 On Saturday we had a lovely walk around Corstorphine Hill. We started at the Walled Garden, where we were delighted to find two Witch Hazel bushes in full bloom. The flowers on the two bushes were slightly different in colour, one being more orange...

Polar Corona by Caroline Gill, a winner of the Hedgehong Poetry Prize, is a crown (corona) of seven interlinked sonnets about Antarctic exploration and penguins. The last line of each sonnet becomes the first line of the next sonnet and the last line...

We had a lovely walk round Edinburgh's Figgate Park on Saturday. The weather was dreich - dull and damp - and not really ideal for photos!
We were delighted to see catkins on the Hazel trees, these are the male catkins, the tiny red female flowers haven't emerged yet. I took several photos, but only the one below really worked out....