CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  A leafless hawthorn hedge in the Tunstall valley, County Durham, shorn with geometric precision by a tractor-mounted hedge cutter, but dec...

Every year sandpipers nest around the edge of Tunstall reservoir near Wolsingham in Weardale, but they are usually pretty elusive - frequent...

.... a glass half-full of rainwater, that is. I should be sitting in the garden sipping chilled wine now, not watching rain running down ...

On the hillside above Tunstall reservoir in Weardale there's a patch of ground that's always wet, even during a drought, where a spr...

Today's Guardian Country Diary describes a late winter walk from Salter's Gate, high on the moorland above Tow Law in County Durh...

It always seems to me that there’s a hint of menace in the way that bracken fronds erupt through the soil in spring. There’s something of t...