A Suffolk Christmas

Boxing Day 2020

Light

Boxing Day dawn brought new Tier 4 restrictions, shutting Suffolk down. The village was quiet anyway, with second homes standing empty, some of my neighbours away visiting family for...

Christmas Day 2020

Earth

I’d planned to do my favourite local walk on Christmas Day: up on to what passes in Suffolk for high ground, with views all around of the arable fields,...

Christmas Eve 2020

Water

Everywhere, the sound of it: rushing along the winter ditches, sandy brown and muscular; gurgling out of old clayware field drains and trickling into roadside gratings half-blocked by mud...