Common Nature

I live in Newcastle, in north-east England, so it's the same climate zone as briarwood above (Cfb: warm temperate, fully humid, warm summer).

I'm 10 miles from the North Sea (cold even in summer) and maybe 40 miles from the top end of the Pennines, the line of hills (of which some are technically mountains) that runs down the centre of the country, so I have huge diversity right on my doorstep.

In my own garden I mostly have weeds, but we also get a lot of birds. I have this grand (and currently, entirely theoretical) plan about remodelling my garden so it's both easy-care and wildlife-friendly.

The icon is somewhat misleading, as it's actually been rather nice this weekend.