Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Day: 18 November 2022

  • “The autumn rain-rot deeper and wider soaks”

    “The autumn rain-rot deeper and wider soaks”

    This autumnal carpet of dead leaves caught my eyes. The Scots have a word for a “circle of rotted dead leaves round the foot of a tree”: “Rain-rot”. Not to be confused with the modern useage for an equine skin disease. The word seems to have been a favourite of the Victorian English poet William…