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Sat 03 Mar 2010To solve our energy crisis, look to the sea
ANOTHER LIFE:ON OUR Atlantic hillside, the long but brilliant end to winter has offered great days for work outside: frosty but invigorating – midgeless, above all. No point in sowing seeds before the soil has warmed; instead, a run of guilt-free days for tackling those corners where nature has gone too far.
The stream that rattles down from the bog ducks under the road through a stone-built arch and cuts off a corner of our acre on its journey to the sea. When we knew it first, the banks of its sheltered hollow were open and grassy, an arena for early nurturing of goats, geese, ducks, orphan lambs and bees.
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