drainage
Books
- The Long Field A Novel of the Fens · Liszt Think
Cambridgeshire, 1911. The wet spring threatens to undo Nell Askew, who has spent two years holding her late husband's forty acres of black peat against the water.
- The Measure…like the calling of birds from the reed beds. Amos Reed was already in the lower field when she reached the gate. His figure bent over the drainage ditch, shovel cutting into the black peat, and the sight steadied her the way a level floor steadies a table. Two years since Thomas died,…
- Surveying the Flooded Field…time. The survey should be complete by this afternoon.” “Then the board will review my findings and determine the optimal path for the new drainage channel. You’ll receive notification of their decision within the month.” Nell looked past him to the long field, forty acres of black peat…
- The Gate and the Letter…along the ditch path with her tools slung over one shoulder. The morning mist lay thick across the Fen, softening the straight lines of the drainage cuts, turning the world into a grey expanse where sky and earth had lost their boundary. Her boots found the familiar rut between the withy…