Landmarks
“He lived for most of his life in a timber-framed Suffolk farmhouse with its own spring-fed moat, the arms of which extended around the house such that it was, in Roger’s phrase, ‘part-islanded’. The moat was connected to a cattle pond that jutted out into the largest grazing common in Suffolk, and that pond was one of twenty-four set around the common, each linked to each by an ancient labyrinth of tunnels and drains. We think of an archipelago as a scatter of land existing within water, but Ro...ger lived on an inverse archipelago – a scatter of water existing within land. Mellis Common itself, when the wind blew in summer, appeared to him like ‘a great inland sea of rippling grasses’, so that ‘although the sea itself is twenty-five miles due east at Walberswick’, he could ‘still enjoy some of the pleasures of living beside it’.
Roger was a film-maker, environmentalist and writer who is best known for his trilogy of books about nature and adventure: Waterlog (1999), Wildwood (2007) and Notes from Walnut Tree Farm (2008).MoreLess
Roger was a film-maker, environmentalist and writer who is best known for his trilogy of books about nature and adventure: Waterlog (1999), Wildwood (2007) and Notes from Walnut Tree Farm (2008).MoreLess
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