Author Archives: Roger Gosden
About Giant Eggs & Double Yolks
This week’s gift from a neighbor’s chicken coop included one extra-large egg. After hard-boiling and cracking open we found a double yolk, which some say is a good omen on our wedding anniversary. The following conversation over a meal would … Continue reading
Posted in Animalia, Assisted reproductive technology, Fertility, Nature
Tagged blastocyst, Human egg or oocyte, IVF and ARTs
Into the Wild at Knepp Estate
Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell loved to travel from West Sussex to the fauna of wilder places in the world. No longer. They have re-envisioned their ‘backyard’ as semi-wilderness. Some backyard! They own the Knepp estate of 3,500 … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Nature, Other
Tagged Frans Vera, Isabella Tree, Knepp estate, Oostvaardersplassen, Rewilding, West Sussex
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Death of a Lawn Mower
The novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald knew that Americans find public expression of their successful lives in a neatly groomed lawn. Jay Gatsby was so horrified at Nick Carroway’s ragged lawn next door that he sent his gardeners over to mow … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, garden, Nature, Other
Tagged Dutch white clover, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby, lawn care, lawn mowing, scythe
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Appalachian Poet – Bertie Jane Cutlip
Outside a country store in the Allegheny Mountains, she stood behind a table covered in mason jars of home-made apple jelly and pickles. It was one of those glorious fall days in West Virginia, so I lingered to buy some … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, West Virginia
Tagged poetry, poetry anthology, Sharp's Country Store, Webster County, West Virginia
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There’ll Be Bluebirds Over
The American composer of “There’ll be Bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover” either had the excuse of poetic license or didn’t know that bluebirds are absent from the British Isles. But the song became one of one of Dame … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, garden, Nature
Tagged Bird eggs, Bluebird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, coronavirus, nestbox, Vera Lynn, Virginia Bluebird Society
