Nature. Writer. Reader. Radical Rural. Guardian Country Diary, BBC Countryfile, RSPB. Award winning author, On Gallows Down & Ghosts of the Farm Climate Fic Prize Judge 2025 North Wessex. https://nicolachester.com/ https://linktr.ee/nicolachesterwriting
‘And of the True Lees, no word… The Rom of the Nevi Wesh & the Indigenous Peoples of Canada; the British Home Children Scheme & a secretive, ancient language that exists within our own. Giving my latest long read another airing. nicolachester.com/2026/07/13/a... & here: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Not sure how I missed this by @patrickbarkham.bsky.social, but what an incredible project!
Anita RoyThe ASRA research project has been eye-opening, and whisker-tingling. Hope this galvanises more action to protect, re-wiggle, rewild and restore the River Tone catchment (with wider and wilder riparian margins for starters). Looking forward to the project's next steps.
Another outing for my piece on @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social & Jackie Morris’s stunning The Book of Birds, for BBC Countryfile. Went to The Wonder of Birds Exhibition @bodleian.ox.ac.uk which is profoundly moving, sad, beautiful & full of wonder. Oh let us save the birds! Else, what are we? 1/5
Weather Report: a fanning breeze. An absence of forecast small rain. The Big Hill (after an absence of walking) as an old, old friend, in bleach blonde tresses. Fields we’ve never seen cut for hay before. The winds of [climate] change, felt in the countryside first. Emotional Weather: thoughtful