Real pond life

Patrick Galbraith suggests a simple way to foster biodiversity

A LITTLE OVER A FORTNIGHT ago, I stood down on the sand by the Thames, around a small bonfire. A poet read some of his work and then a lady who had come all the way from Scotland sang a song that she explained was music from the “traveller folk”. It was cold and the rising river shone purple and green beneath the lights of Hungerford Bridge. We were the dregs of a launch party for a new book titled Wild Service, which is a collection of essays written by various people affiliated with the Right to Roam campaign. Guy Shrubsole, the land access campaigner, has a piece in there; Nick Hayes who wrote the Book of Trespass contributed an essay that touches on paganism, and Jon Moses wrote on the…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2024

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