Helen Burton

Novelist: Revolution in Rosewater, Chestnut Tiger, The Lords of Arden, The Scarlet Splendour etc.

[Helen Burton @Helen__Burton]

@rusticmascara Many congratulations! 😃

[Helen Burton @Helen__Burton]

@SamSamuelCrane
Much enjoyed Ep.3 of Sister Boniface last night but couldn't help feeling sorry for Colin by the end. Presumably, we shan't be seeing him again as he's now in gaol - unless, of course, he makes a daring escape?

[Sam Crane @SamSamuelrcrane]

If u get a pass for @slamdance not only do u get to see the most wild and brilliant collection of films, u also get filmmaker Q&As like the one I'm doing with other DIG filmmakers tomorrow 6pm UK time (10am PST)

[Helen Burton @Helen__Burton]

@David_Oakes @TreesACrowdpod So sorry. The Ash is such a lovely tree with its untidy, weeping branches. I worry about my nearest - Yggy (Yggdrasil). I think he is under a preservation order but, sadly, that won't help him with Ash Dieback!

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@David_Oakes @Natures_Voice Has anyone else noticed that gardens which are full of birds for 51 weeks of the year fall silent during the days of the Bird Watch? Is there a great migration planned by the fluffy and feathery for this week just to fool us humans? Better luck this year perhaps!

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@SamSamuelrcrane
Loved seeing you in 'New Tricks' last night; always good to discover gems you never saw first time round!

[Helen Burton @Helen__Burton]

@SamSamuelrcrane @LSFF Many congratulations! Surely a happy portent for 2022?

[Helen Burton @Helen__Burton]

@WoodlandTrust On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;
His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;
The gale, it plies the saplings double,
And thick on Severn snow the leaves.

'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger
When Uricon the city stood .......

From A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad XXXI

[Helen Burton @Helen__Burton]

@David_Oakes Difficult choices!
For 'Victoria' the 'Archery' scene with Harriet.
For 'Cold Skin' (which was wonderful all through) there's the very scary scene early on when the monster is trying to break into the hut and doesn't come out of it very well! Obviously must watch it again!

[Helen Burton @Helen__Burton]

@David_Oakes @WoodlandTrust @CoedCadw @ForestryEngland @NewForestNPA @The_HOEF @ChrisGPackham @chrisrwatson @AmandaOwen8 Very interested in the Battle of Evesham connection with the Pear. Simon de Montfort's great friend (but no relation) Peter de Montfort fell at his side. Peter was the First Speaker of the English Parliament. I live close to his castle mount (Beaudesert). Think of him often!

[Helen Burton @Helen__Burton]

@David_Oakes @msimpsonian @MichaelGladis Loved hearing more about the Bird Cherry (Prunus padus) as I spent an age last month trying to identify the pretty, white-blossomed trees which were teetering here and there on the banks of my local River Alne. Shall look forward to seeing those black cherries come autumn!

[Helen Burton @Helen__Burton]

@TreesACrowdpod @David_Oakes @sophiepavs @BeaverTrust @exitthelemming Another interesting episode! Thanks to David, Sophie and to Sam West for his beautiful rendition of G.M. Hopkins poem. Aspens do lend themselves to verse. Can't wander along the banks of a stream without muttering 'Willows whiten, Aspens quiver...' (Thank you, Tennyson).

[David Oakes @David_Oakes]

So, I think 🌳🌲 are cool...

Not just the woody bit, but the mass of cultural foliage we have decorated them with. Their folkstories. Their myths. (And the geeky botany bit too).

So, I've made a podcast about them:
https://t.co/Mp1N18xHYQ

Please RT, ppl need cool trees.

[Helen Burton @Helen__Burton]

@David_Oakes I should have been the same. It isn't easy for a writer to eradicate every tiny anachronism but you have to try and there's far less excuse for them these days with the wonders of the web. Like punctuation, I don't think many people think it matters!

[Helen Burton @Helen__Burton]

@David_Oakes @WoodlandTrust Elms were once known as the Warwickshire Weed. Dutch Elm Disease practically wiped them out here in the 1970s; so sad, you rarely see one now.

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@David_Oakes @OllieGuillou @bellahardy @alistairpetrie @Sarah_Mudd Must add that I loved listening to the pure sound of your sister's oboe and, as always, to Bella Hardy. Many thanks to all!

[Helen Burton @Helen__Burton]

@David_Oakes @OllieGuillou @bellahardy @alistairpetrie @Sarah_Mudd My sis has a large wild box shes grown from a sprig which, many moons ago, we cut from a box growing above the rock where Piers Gaveston (chum of Edward II) was beheaded on Blacklow Hill, Warwick,1312. Unlikely to be contemporary with poor Piers, I think. Amazingly spooky place!

[Helen Burton @Helen__Burton]

@David_Oakes Loved all 3 episodes. I look out at 8 ancient Yews. They've no connection to our church but our lord took men from this town to the Battle of Crecy in 1346. Now wondering if these yews are old enough to have been grown for his bows!

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@bsraf10 I hope you have a happy day too! 😎

[Helen Burton @Helen__Burton]

@David_Oakes Thats wonderful, always a day to look forward to! Never sure where you are these days but wherever it is you've beaten us to it!