On Dartmoor they call it the ammil – the moment when ice captures surfaces in the landscape, transforming the slightest twig on a tree and even spiders’ webs into something white and other-worldly. Ammil is only a Dartmoor term as far as I know, and there must be many variants – let me know belowContinue reading “Winter Walk with Ammil”
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Land Beyond Domesday
The Domesday book was William of Normandy’s great survey of England, as he consolidated his realm after his invasion of England in 1066 – though the Domesday Book wasn’t begun until 1085. As the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle has it: Then, at the midwinter, was the king in Gloucester with his council … . After this hadContinue reading “Land Beyond Domesday”