Country diary: The rain has come, and suddenly the land looks (and smells) different | Nicola Chester
Inkpen, Berkshire: From lurid yellow to a moorland brown; from the scent of fire smoke to sheep urine. It’s amazing what some rainfall can doAfter an entire heat-baked summer without rain, the land looks strange and unlike itself. Fields, banks and grassy margins are the lurid yellow ochre of climate fiction – the mise en scène captured with eerie relevance in the recent BBC TV drama The Rapture.There are cracks so deep in Weaver’s Field that the farmer can push…
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