‘I needed to be in that strange, flat place’: how an Orkney garden healed a writer | Scotland

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It was during her first winter in Orkney that the nature writer Victoria Bennett experienced the joy of baying into the sea during a storm. “There’s something very physically releasing about howling,” she says. “It’s quite animalistic and powerful.” On a stormy beach, when waves are crashing on the rocks, “you can really let rip”, … Read more

In my apartment block’s ‘Room of Unlimited Magical Recycling Possibilities’ I found not just freebies, but friends | Homes

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When I lived in inner Sydney, my apartment building had a dedicated reuse room for secondhand items. The room was officially named the Room of Unlimited Magical Recycling Possibilities, but most residents just called it the magic room. This name was fitting because often things seemed to appear there precisely when I needed them. I … Read more

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