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Ait

There are nearly 200 aits and islands along the river Thames, carved out as water pushed from source to sea over thousands of years. Some are narrow, muddy slips, home only to heron and grebe; some rise like sunken treasure at low tide; some cleave the watercourse like an axe, and overgrowth hides bank from…

Petrichor

Those long evenings when spring turns into summer are my favourite. I like the way dusk steals a few extra minutes every evening from night – the same way you boil a frog by turning the heat up slowly, slowly – until suddenly it’s time for bed but there’s light still creeping in through the…

Mass

Rosary beads trickle between fingers. Staccato mutterings swell as one at the tenth Hail Mary. A thumb rubs rhythmically on a battered HOL BIBLE – the gilt Y a tragic victim of religious fervour. The third Joyful Mystery is just beginning as I take my seat. Twelve nuns line the front two banks of pews.…

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