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The badgers of Nowhere Wood – a February story

Feb 22, 2026

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by

Neil

in Adaptation, adventures in time and in space, being and becoming, Diversity, Interdependence, life depends on life, Oneness, organisms are organised, spring stories, the environment, winter stories

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…
The wise birds of Nowhere Wood

Jan 26, 2026

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Neil

in Adaptation, adventures in time and in space, being and becoming, folklore, life depends on life, Oneness, organisms are organised, pass on information, sustainable, winter stories

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…
The tunnelling armies beneath carpets of gold

Nov 12, 2025

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Neil

in Adaptation, adventures in time and in space, autumn stories, being and becoming, Cycles, Diversity, flow and recycle, Health, Interdependence, life depends on life, Oneness, organisms are organised, sustainable, the environment, what is life?

It is early November in the park, and carpets of fallen leaves are piling up across the earth in sodden heaps, driven by the autumn winds and rains. The browns of the oak, the sycamore ambers and the golds of the beeches. Beneath the old apple tree, the king of the orchard, fallen apples lie…
The end of the summer

Sep 3, 2025

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Neil

in adventures in time and in space, autumn stories, climate change, flow and recycle, Health, Oneness, summer stories, the environment

Nowhere Wood has a weary silence, as the heat stifles its life. It is ready with its autumn plans, which cannot start until it rains. Rain, the life-giver. Yet in flood, rain is the also the destroyer. It is a question of balance. Is the balance changing in the wood? Is the balance changing in…
Apples and the new year

Jan 11, 2025

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by

Neil

in flow and recycle, Health, Oneness, the environment, winter stories

Let’s travel back in time three hundred years or more, to the East End Farm, near the hamlet of Nowhere. East End farm has a few sheep and goats, some vegetables and several apple orchards. Tonight the orchards are surrounded by farm workers and villagers from Nowhere, all singing and banging pots and pans.…
The fairy ring

Oct 11, 2024

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by

Neil

in Adaptation, Diversity, flow and recycle, folklore, Geometry and Beauty, Oneness, summer stories

Just outside of Nowhere Wood, next to the school playing fields, you can, on a summer evening, sometimes see a fairy ring. The photograph shows parts of this fairy ring: sometimes you can find rings that form a perfect circle. How many fungi can you see here? There are about 15 mushrooms – the…
The sustainable park (2)

Mar 22, 2025

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Neil

in flow and recycle, Health, Oneness, spring stories, sustainable, the environment, the sustainable park series

We did not want those trees in Nowhere Wood to be felled, but we accepted that the trees were infected with Ash die-back disease and had to go. Growing and managing trees is something that people of done for tens of thousands of years. One secret is to use every part of the tree…
I bear their homes, too

Jul 9, 2025

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Neil

in adventures in time and in space, being and becoming, Diversity, folklore, Interdependence, life depends on life, Oneness, summer stories, what is life?

For Jules Acton, author of Oaklore. The old oak tree said to the traveller passing by: “You know me, you see me everyday. I am that oak tree that has stood here longer than any of can you remember.” “I am on the 1840 Ordnance Survey map and I was a sturdy tree, even back…
Time travellers to Nowhere (1)

Mar 14, 2021

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Neil

in Adaptation, adventures in time and in space, Diversity, life depends on life, Oneness, the environment, time travellers to Nowhere

Imagine you had a Time Machine: where and when would you go to? Come with me back to Nowhere Wood, about 310 million years ago. That is long before humans, mammals or even dinosaurs existed, but frogs laid their eggs in pools, much as they do today. Today it is hot, humid and very quiet:…
What’s in a name?

Oct 11, 2024

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Neil

in Adaptation, being and becoming, Diversity, flow and recycle, folklore, Oneness

This fungus grows in Nowhere Wood. It has the glorious scientific name of Polyporus squamous. That’s hard to say, harder to spell and even harder to remember!! Scientific names are important though: they give the accurate name of the organism, and they also tell scientists quite a lot about how the organism lives. These scientific…
A tribute to fallen trees

Mar 15, 2025

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Neil

in being and becoming, flow and recycle, Health, Oneness, the environment, winter stories

The trees in Nowhere Wood are always there, going quietly through the motions of the seasons: noticed only when we stop to look and reflect. But we feel their presence strongly, just out of sight and mind. Until today, when their absence feels like the loss of dear friends. It only took a morning, and…
The sustainable park (1)

Nov 28, 2024

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by

Neil

in flow and recycle, Health, life depends on life, Oneness, sustainable, the sustainable park series, winter stories

This willow tree in the park is very old. Maybe a hundred years or so. Look how its bark is gnarled and twisted. It is a great friend of the park and is home to many different insects and birds. One year, a female mallard duck even made a nest on the flat top of…
Climate change and the air

Jan 19, 2025

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Neil

in Adaptation, climate change, Cycles, Health, Oneness

The air is all round us and is a mixture of many different gases. 78% of the air is made of nitrogen, which is the most common gas. This story is about two other gases found in the air – oxygen and carbon dioxide. We breathe in oxygen and use it to release…
It’s Flying Ant Day!

Jun 27, 2025

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Neil

in adventures in time and in space, Cycles, flow and recycle, life depends on life, Oneness, organisms are organised, pass on information, summer stories, sustainable, the environment

Today is Flying Ant Day: the day that ants take to the air and fly at the same time. The ants are from different colonies that can be several hundred metres apart. Let’s celebrate Flying Ant Day! To some, it’s a minor nuisance. They land in your lemonade, tangle in your hair, and make picnics…
The greening of Nowhere Wood

Apr 4, 2024

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by

Neil

in being and becoming, Cycles, Geometry and Beauty, Oneness, spring stories

It is a cold and wet April in Nowhere Wood, which is full of birdsong and flowers. The trees are becoming green with new leaves. Leaves grow silently that we can miss their unfolding, noticing only when they are fully opened. If you look carefully, you can see new leaves opening today. It raises our…
Time travellers to Nowhere (2)

Mar 13, 2021

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Neil

in Adaptation, adventures in time and in space, Diversity, life depends on life, Oneness, the environment, time travellers to Nowhere

We are not alone in Nowhere Wood, about 300 million years ago. We are deep in a forest of tree ferns, towering above us, fifteen metres high. The damp air has a sweet and woody fragrance, heavy with spores, heavy with promise. The plants are silently photosynthesising, growing ever taller and adding oxygen to the…
Time travellers to Nowhere (3)

Mar 13, 2021

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Neil

in Adaptation, adventures in time and in space, being and becoming, Diversity, life depends on life, Oneness, the environment, time travellers to Nowhere, what is life?

We are in Nowhere Wood, about 300 million years ago, staring at a forest of tree ferns, watching them make oxygen. Over the years, these tree ferns have made so much oxygen that its concentration in the air has risen to about 35%, (compare that with the 21% found in the 21st century). There is…
The Apple Tree Man of Nowhere

Jan 11, 2025

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by

Neil

in adventures in time and in space, folklore, Health, Interdependence, Oneness, winter stories

Once upon a time, there lived a young man called Henry Summers, who lived at the Farmhouse over at the East End, just below the quarry. He was a wise man, strong in the arm and of calm manner. He never beat his animals or his wife. The family farmed ten fields and had several…
Climate change: what can we do about it?

Feb 17, 2025

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Neil

in climate change, Health, Oneness

The climate of the whole world is changing because of the rising temperatures. Scientists think that increasing levels of carbon dioxide gas in the air are making these changes worse. The Earth is now an average of two degrees warmer than it was in the 1700s, before the start of the industrial revolution. We should…
Spring is coming!

Feb 1, 2021

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Neil

in Cycles, flow and recycle, life depends on life, Oneness, spring stories

Nowhere Wood on December 23rd was silent and still. The wood was in midwinter, at its furthest point from the Sun on its journey through the seasons. At only 7 hours and 49 minutes, this was the shortest day and darkness ruled the wood. From now onwards the days will get longer by about two…

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