The other day I visited the Magic Faraway Tree. It was deserted, which seemed strange for a portal to another world. But then perhaps that’s because it’s only a portal for my daughter and I. She decided the tree was magic several years ago, when she was still young enough to need walking to school,Continue reading “Just Magic”
Category Archives: Found Objects
Funny Little Bird Stone
I live in a landscape made of flint and chalk, tumbled like the bones of the earth within dark soil. Huge knobbly flints show up in walls from the smallest cottage to the largest cathedral, builders making use of what they had to hand. They lie in garden beds too, clogged with soil, strange shapesContinue reading “Funny Little Bird Stone”
Found Objects – Horseshoe
A few months ago, I mentioned in a post that we were digging out an old raised vegetable bed at the end of our garden, in preparation for a new garden room/shed and decked area. In the course of the excavation our daughter was pottering around, poking through the piles of earth and rubble forContinue reading “Found Objects – Horseshoe”
Beach Treasure
I found this on the beach last year. To me it looks like a porcelain dog’s head, weathered by its time in the sea but still holding a vestige of what it once was. And it is porcelain, not just some strangely weathered stone – traces of shining crackled glaze run under its ‘chin’ andContinue reading “Beach Treasure”
A Piece of Sky
I found this flint some time ago. Split open, it lay upon the path where I walked. It looks as though a star is inside it, as though long ago one fell to earth and became caught in the stone. In Ambeth, the Elders of the Light watch the stars and see what they portend.Continue reading “A Piece of Sky”
Treasure Hunting
Last summer my husband, daughter and I went metal detecting in our local woods. Of course we had dreams of uncovering some sort of golden hoard, left in days past by desperate refugees fleeing advancing armies, but we figured the reality was more likely to be an array of soft drink cans and old screwsContinue reading “Treasure Hunting”
A Mystery From The Sea
Last year, at the end of summer we went to Sligo, up in the northwest of Ireland. It was wonderful. We visited a fairy mountain and made a wish, walked through a landscape of stone monuments older than Stonehenge and stayed on the beach at a little hotel behind an ancient pub that served theContinue reading “A Mystery From The Sea”
Finding Stories
I found this little guy on the beach a few weeks ago. I say little guy because to me it looks like a porcelain dog’s head, weathered by its time in the sea but still holding a vestige of what it once was. And it is porcelain, not just some strangely weathered stone – tracesContinue reading “Finding Stories”
Helen Glynn Jones 