Notes from a quiet life
Suzie ReesPosts from a Derbyshire village, to help you notice what's going on in the natural world, connect more deeply with the seasons, and find inspiration to forage, grow or cook. And in these difficult times, perhaps to find joy too.
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Musings for the autumn equinox
Tuesday brings the autumn equinox: equal day and night, the beginning of (astronomical) autumn, and the portal to the dark half of the year.
On the allotment, there’s a gentle air of abandonment: the long grass, grown suddenly with the ra...
An autumn of dry stone walling
As we move into September and it really starts to feel like autumn, I can feel my focus turning inward. It certainly feels early this year. The summer veg are almost finished: on Monday, the final day of my daughter’s summer holidays, I pic...
Early autumn foraging
Oh, autumn. A beautiful and poetic season.
Although I always find the transition from summer to the darker half of the year difficult, I also know there is lots to love about this time. Warm tights and boots, knitted jumpers, chestnuts, b...
Mourning summer’s end
Autumn’s coming. It feels unmistakable now - the rain, the colder mornings, the change in the light when the sun shines. For weeks, there have been subtle signs - the ripening berries, the seedheads, the slight chill in the air - but the tr...
Apples and elderberries
Somehow, it’s been almost a year since I started this blog! This week, since I’ve already spotted the first elderberries, and we’re eating the early apples from my parents’ trees, I thought I’d reshare this post from early September 2025. I...
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I'm Suzie, writer of Notes from a Quiet Life. I live in a village in Derbyshire with my family, and post about nature and the seasons, my allotment and garden, as well as cooking and countryside crafts.
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