Lisa - *OwlBeSatReading*’s Reviews > Next to Nature: A Lifetime in the English Countryside > Status Update

That’s ’January’ at Bottengoms Farm finished! I’ll be picking it up again in February. This is my 2026 monthly reading companion, a chapter a month for twelve months. A delightful reread that fills me with so much joy.

‘I must weed, not the garden but the bookcases. They bulge and sway, topple and protest. Not another volume. And I hate a tight shelf. So a hard-hearted sheep and goats business is called for. Or of course some more bookcases. And it takes such an age, this sorting, what with the reading and the absence of ruthlessness’.