Crafty Green Poet

dandelions brighten roadside verges - missing my rabbit

Wildwood , an exhibition at Bolton Museum, features new work by photographer Pete Davis. These stunning large format photographs capture the...

My parents house in suburban Manchester has a lovely garden and is surrounded by other lovely gardens. It's great to see so many birds a...

A lot of people grumble about train fares in the UK, here's why I don't: Edinburgh to Bolton single £9. Bolton to Edinburgh sin...

When Dr Rudolph Diesel demonstrated his newly-invented diesel engine in 1900 at the World Exhibition, he used fuel derived from peanut oil. ...

A confusion of cherry trees has bloomed since November while others are still in bud - leaves slow to unfurl in the cold late Spring. The nu...

I would give you the song of a skylark rising thoughtless into the blue the blue green flash of a kingfisher darting downstream to the water...