Kate Blincoe 🍃💚🍃

To quote Nic Wilson’s fab description of my article, ‘Dry September goes by in an alcoholic haze’: #comments" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/environment/20…

Or maybe not quite😆 Country diary: A Wordsworthian moment, golden and dancing | Kate Blincoe theguardian.com/environment/20…

Wassailing is such a quaint tradition, but this is why it matters to me: theguardian.com/environment/20… #naturewriting

Foxes on the move and flowers that will never bloom amp.theguardian.com/environment/20…

Country diary: The night-time farm is alive with unseen wildlife | Kate Blincoe theguardian.com/environment/20…

@nicolawriting It’s such a heavy responsibility and privilege. Said goodbye to my 29 year old last month. He’d been with me for 26 years 💔

A sad goodbye to our dear old Stormy. The pony-on-a-shoestring we loaned for my daughter’s childhood. He was the funniest, most brilliant & independent spirit & gave us many adventures & so much joy. He enjoyed a long, happy & content retirement. He was 30. We’ll miss him dearly.

Country diary: The last warm day of the year, and the woodland is changing | Kate Blincoe theguardian.com/environment/20…

Thanks Stephen

Country diary: Field names bring tales of history and change to life | Kate Blincoe theguardian.com/environment/20…

Country diary: A little madness contained in the crop | Kate Blincoe theguardian.com/environment/ar…

@vickihird @GdnCountryDiary Thanks Vicki 💚

"Another theory posits that, following a poor harvest, increased consumption of ergot influenced the mental state of French peasants, thus provoking the French revolution in 1789" top @GdnCountryDiary by @Kateblincoe -fungi, like bugs, vast historical role theguardian.com/environment/ar…

@nicolawriting Smitten 🥰

All the pretty horses … this year’s cohort; a camaraderie of appaloosa foals under the old parkland oaks. If I was 9, 10, 11 oh, 16 again, I’d spend each day of my summer holidays walking out to see them. In fact, I may well do now …

@GdnCountryDiary Wonderful, Derek

Country diary: Feeding time for the swallows and martins | Derek Niemann theguardian.com/environment/ar…

@BookwormVaught Happy reminder! Will be wonderful to follow the progress in 2025

Country diary: The glory of a steaming pile of muck | Kate Blincoe theguardian.com/environment/ar…

@nicolawriting @GdnCountryDiary I’m glad I’m not the only one Nicola! Ours is managed by digger now but you’ve just reminded me of the art of doing it by hand- I used to get quite perfectionist about it! ‘Welly-rotting days’ - I love that description x

Love this from @Kateblincoe @GdnCountryDiary! I too am a lifelong pilgrim to its steaming heights & shall think of that from now on. Oh those hot, welly-rotting days of ‘squaring off’ & precarious ramps to the top. Can see into our landing window from the top of ours!

@GdnCountryDiary Very excited about this!

Book announcement! A Guardian Country Diary anthology is to be published by Faber on 26/9. It features our finest nature writers as they track the ebbs and flows of UK wildlife across the seasons, from Cornwall to Orkney. Pre-order it here with 25% off: guardianbookshop.com/Under-the-Chan…

Country diary: A solitary bee thrives amid the wet | Kate Blincoe theguardian.com/environment/ar…

@GdnCountryDiary @revealnatureuk is running other biofluorescence walks like the one I went on

Country diary: How extraordinary to see with an insect’s eye | Kate Blincoe theguardian.com/environment/ar…