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Kelly Holman

Writing and Photography

“Every last berry has been stripped from the garden this winter ... holly, ivy and olive! ... It’s a stretch of the imagination from my cold winter garden to the rainforests I grant you but that’s where my winter reading has led me. In fact the rainforests are closer than I thought and their fate will affect my garden and yours ...”

From my regular ‘Kelly’s country’ column:

“Take the Signal Crayfish which I discovered recently had made its way into our backwater … They are said to be delicious with garlic butter … “

“As a vole scurrying about my business in the rough grass I would not appreciate the snowy white softness of a barn owl’s undercarriage. To see it would mean I was about to become dinner. As a human, I am enthralled by the beauty of these surprisingly slender owls.”

“Have you heard of the Crackling Radio bird? ... In Southern Italy I heard two of them, crackling radio birds in stereo, singing from the ruins of Emperor Hadrian’s villa...”