In January 2008 my partner was diagnosed with Alzhiemers. This wildlife 'diary', as a result, has not been a wildlife diary, but a series of rushed reveries and recollections of where I had been and what I had seen and felt during the week, weeks, months or seasons between one diary entry and the next.
I will continue to wander and wonder through the woods and hills, when I can. Nature is there for my partner, and she gets more pleasure from nature than anything else. Nature is there for me too, as it is for all of us, it is all we need, if only more of us could see that.
I hope that some of the readers of this forum, who perhaps were not seeing it, perhaps are now. Nature, the natural world, is there for all of us, but we need to take care of it for it to take care of us. It needs us now more than ever before, as much as we need it, more than ever before.
I'd just like to thank Mark and Anabel at the Lochaline Dive Centre for allowing me the freedom to write on thier web page.
Farewell...
stephenhardy128@btinternet.com
