reflections on the world of Nowhere Wood, Nailsea
Yes, Nowhere Wood really is its name.
Nowhere Wood is in Nailsea, North Somerset, England. It is part of the Trendlewood Park, an award-winning green space.
Nowhere Wood is full of stories, from all of the creatures that live there to the people and events that have shaped and built the wood over billions of years.
Stories from Nowhere Wood tell a few of these stories.
[titmice is an old English name for birds of the Paridae family, including blue and great tits. It is also a term familiar to the American readers of these stories.] This is a bright and early sunlit story, chipper with the sounds of Spring: “Ti-ti-pu, ti-tipu….tsee-tsee-tsee”. The quick, little, sharp notes, ticking up from the …
There are badgers in Nowhere Wood. For the first time, we think. This is their February story. Imagine living in a dark world shaped by scent, vibration and touch — where wind carries stories and the air itself guides you back to the mouth of your sett. A world of kinship and inherited ground. Of …
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After dark, we can hear the tawny owls that live in the old oak by the pond, calling to each other, “tu-wit, tu-woo”. In the woods and hedges around the hamlet of Nowhere, where the ancient oaks keep their own counsel and the paths disappear at dusk into darkness, there is an old tree with …