Before we firmly head into autumn, I want to look back over this extraordinary summer. Here in Devon, after a dry Spring, we had no rain for 45 consecutive days in July and August, which is a UK record. We are still officially in drought. Ironically, this is after the wettest winter on record, with rain every day until early March. It has also been hot on 91 days, with an all-time high of 35.8 C recorded In June, and we had the driest July in Devon sonce records began in 190

I have lived in the same part of the world, Devon in the south west of England, for all of my life. I am rooted into this place and its familiarity is comforting and shelters me in these tumultuous times. This little corner of Devon has always felt like a safe haven. And yet I am feeling increasingly 'unmoored'. Reading ' Nation of Strangers ' by Ece Temelkuran is helping me to make sense of this disequilibrium. A profound and thought-provoking book, written as a series of l

There is a real sense of change in the air as we head towards summer here in the UK. The weather is changeable, unpredictable. Like my...