STUFF HAPPENS

Poetry & prose by Alex Hickman

British Summer Time: highlights

SATURDAY Children do homework at kitchen table. Turned and rolled earth in south east corner of garden. Planted six trees: 4 apples (cookers), 1 damson, 1 greengage. Plus stakes. Applied grass seed to south east corner of garden, and elsewhere. Ate lunch outside on terrace (hot ham and baked potatoes). Sunglasses. Salisbury IPA. Mowed lawn. […]

Village life – March 2014

As the water‘s have subsided at Cuttenham Farm the ruined fields have stank of salt marsh. The soft mud and silt left by the flood has attracted birdlife, most surprisingly a cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) – bright white – picking away at the edges of the Avon. To see the egret fold up its legs and […]