Nic has been a Country Diarist for The Guardian since 2020. She feels privileged to be able to write about the local landscape and wildlife that she loves.
Recent Country Diaries:
- Strawberry Hill, Bedfordshire: After an evening round the campfire, we head into the wonderfully, chaotically alive scrub, to hear the headline act“Now I walk in beauty / Beauty is before me”. Earlier this evening we learned the simple melody to this […]
- Stevenage, Hertfordshire: Thanks to Andy, who scrabbles around on the pavement, we know that pigeons are just for startersAndy and I meet by the trolleys in Asda car park. As we head towards Vista Tower in the town centre, he tells […]
- Therfield Heath, Hertfordshire: Soft and felty beyond belief, these springtime tremblers are also highly scarce – yet here are tens of thousands of them As spring days lengthen and “smale foweles maken melodye”, like Chaucer’s “sondry folk” I long to go […]
- St Albans Cathedral, Hertfordshire: The chapel here is a wonderful curiosity, thanks to its restoration by a green-fingered Victorian sculptorAll’s quiet in the Lady Chapel, sheltered from the bustle of the city by thick limestone walls of Totternhoe clunch, quarried just […]
