Looking inside an abandoned wasps’ nest found in an outbuilding in late winter. A piece written for the Guardian Country Diary.
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Books and articles by writer Sara Hudston
Articles by Sara Hudston
Looking inside an abandoned wasps’ nest found in an outbuilding in late winter. A piece written for the Guardian Country Diary.
Read moreThis piece for the Guardian Country Diary was inspired by a night walk in the woods near Wytherston with members[…]
Read moreThe River Tone at Taunton flows brown beside shopfronts, cafes and the Brewhouse theatre, sliding smoothly under footbridges, easing by[…]
Read moreTen o’clock on a hot, still evening with the dew falling like nectar on parched ground. As the dusk gathers,[…]
Read moreWho was St Wite? Nobody knows. She is a mystery, and that is part of her power. There are no[…]
Read moreThe sound of chiff-chaffs shouting in the woods falls away as I follow the South Dorset Ridgeway upwards to the[…]
Read moreIt’s the yellow that catches my eye. Bright egg-yolk splotched with black warts, glistening against wet tarmac. Long, striped toes.[…]
Read moreNearly seven thousand years ago the people who lived beside the Samara River on the Russian steppes created a cemetery[…]
Read moreIt takes five workers eight hours to thrash three acres worth of wheat reed. That’s enough to thatch the average[…]
Read moreSome places invite responses from the deepest part of the unconscious mind. Dig down through the strata of fiction and[…]
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