Seasons
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Iffat Mirza Rashid, Alton Without growth or decay we’d have no concept of time. The seasons of the year, for many millennia are a cycle of growth – flowers, vegetation, animal young, and a few months later, we see their decay as the weather cycle turns frostier and the nights get longer. Most of the…
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Sarah Ward In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth as hard as iron, water like a stone1. These simple words from a childhood school poem, evoke the bitterness, difficulty and harsh nature of winter. It can be an unrelenting season of trial, barren in nature and physically dark. In the UK, the seasons…