Country diary: a landscape coming in from the cold
by Mark Cocker from on (#3JMH1)
Claxton, Norfolk: A lone blackbird offers hope of spring in the snowstorm's Arctic silence
Even now there are several roadside heaps of it where the snowdrifts had been so high that we were entirely cut off for three days. These vestiges hardly conjure the power of that extraordinary storm, but it has been fascinating to track the whole system as a single organism.
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