This subtle but arresting image came from a friend. After a bitter year for so many people, I
thought it was very appropriate. It has
an even more elegiac quality when you know that this is the site of the Battle
of the Somme which took place during the First World War between 1 July and 18
November 1916. One of the most traumatic military operations ever recorded; there
were more than one and half million casualties.
