Memoir | Trish Nicholsons Words in the Treehouse

Love in the Tree House: Part 2

white-faced herons inspecting their nest

We left the herons building their nest and trying it out for size. (If you missed Part 1 it is here.) When a gang of noisy magpies charged around the tree-house pine and the neighbouring casuarina tree, squabbling

Love in the Tree House

As the old song says: “Love is a many splendored thing … nature’s way of giving a reason to be living,” and we teasingly call courting couples ‘love birds’. But do birds experience love? It’s a moot point. Birds

The Round Garden in the Five Acre Forest

The five acre forest now clothes an ancient migrated dune; it is all sand and therefore dry land. After twenty years of clearing and planting, topsoil is beginning to form where tree debris has been left to rot and return

Forests: Courting, or Wilding?

The emotional aspects of conservation create deep bonds with the land

Story Visits the Island of Stories

Being Manx by birth and heritage, I saluted ‘Themselves’, the ‘Little People’ or the Faery Folk of the Isle of Man, for their benevolence during this journey – my first return to the island in thirty years. And Manannan Beg

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