the winter solstice has a magic for me that other pagan festivals don’t quite hit. It’s the one I actively celebrate rather than simply nod to, as I do the equinoxes, the summer solstice and the sprin

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Have your very own Winter Watch at home and look out for some garden visitors in the coming weeks and months

Birds can transport us to another time and place entirely,

Nature needs time to adapt to changing conditions,

October brings the first of the frosts, bewitching mist, the turning of leaves and a host of otherworldly visitors, finds John Lewis-Stempel