Book Review – February 2022 – Sallie Eden
Diary of a Somebody by Brian Bilston Published by Picador, 2019 Brian’s year hasn’t begun well. His ex wife has a new, over-achieving, partner, his son finds him a disappointment, the cat...
Author: Susan Dew
Bee Mania – February 2022 – Colin Rees
Another quiet month on the beekeeping front, I’m afraid, with little to report. The bees are still active on the sunny days but the cold weather is keeping them in cluster still. ...
Gardening – February 2022 – Caroline Kenzie
February can be misleading. Sometimes, here on the Roseland with our little microclimate, it can lull us in to a false sense of spring with warm sunshine and brave spring flowers. But...
Wild Roseland Nature Notes – January 2022
Our summer visitors have gone, and our winter visitors have firmly settled in for the next few cold months. This time though, there are no traffic jams, no sat nav mistakes, and...
Gardening – January 2022 – Caroline Kenzie
January – often a calm month, although sometimes a gloomy month, with days of featureless grey. A little brighter here, a touch of mizzle there. And those bright, sharp days that are...
Book Reviews – January 2022 – Sallie Eden
Close To Me by Amanda Reynolds Published by Wildfire in 2017 Recently shown on Channel 4*, and described as a “shocking psychological drama”, initially it reminded me of S J Watson’s wonderful 2015...
Book Review – January 2022 – Sallie Eden
This is the story of Phyllis Pearsall, daughter of a Jewish, Hungarian immigrant, and an Irish-Italian mother. It manages to be both interesting and disappointing. The former because her thoroughly unpleasant father...
BeeMania – January 2022 – Colin Rees
I hope you all had a great, if unseasonable weatherwise, Christmas. The bees did! They have been out and about in the spells of dry weather because it’s been so warm they...
Wild Roseland Nature Notes – December 2021
Nature Notes December 2021 December is a great time to listen to the sounds of nature at night. It is when foxes can be heard communicating. There is a good reason...
Gardening – December 2021 – Helen Robins
Roseland Online, December 2021 Winter colour. At a time when the weather is not conducive to spending hours in the garden, it’s tempting to think we don’t need colour to look at. ...