Nature's Child

As I write Hermione''s twelfth year is drawing to a close. The years of innocence are waning. But we have had the good fortune to live through a period when a child''s mind is wide open and as absorbent as a sponge. Blessed years of exploration and discovery, fat and full of the natural world, which surrounds her here ... the mountains and forests and ospreys, eagles, otters and pine martens of a ...