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Country diary: Northumberland

Our country churches are adapting to parishioners. We had a pet service recently in our village church, when the idea was that we could bring a dog, cat, or even a ferret to be blessed. We usually have fewer than 10 people in church at the weekly ...

From VERONICA HEATH, Guardian Unlimited,  12 Nov 2009

Veronica Heath: Country diary

Early this week, I walked down my field at dawn to check a fence that I suspected might need repair, and was thrilled to see a badger shuffling along the hedgerow. Occasionally, I used to see one in my field, or next door in the churchyard, but not for ...

From VERONICA HEATH, Guardian Unlimited,  5 Mar 2009

Country diary: Nothumberland

I went into my bathroom at 10 o'clock last night and saw I had an intruder: a long-eared bat was scuttling up and down the empty bath. I did not hesitate to pick him up carefully and to slip him out of the window into the welcome darkness. I don't know ...

From VERONICA HEATH, Guardian Unlimited,  4 Sep 2008

Country diary

To mark the date of the summer solstice the Forestry Commission arranged a three-hour hike last Saturday evening to the summit of Simonside, which has lovely views over Coquetdale and the Cheviot hills. The summer solstice derives from the Latin words ...

From VERONICA HEATH, Guardian Unlimited,  26 Jun 2008

Country diary: Veronica Heath

The season for country race meetings is from January to late May. These are described as point-to-points, a definition that described the old-fashioned steeplechases in which our grandparents rode from a start to a finish, over the plough and through ...

From VERONICA HEATH, Guardian Unlimited,  3 Apr 2008

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