ABSTRACT
I’m afraid the story starts relatively early because my family traveled a lot
when I was a child. When I was in Northern Ireland as a five-or six-year-old,
something happened to me which switched me on to the natural world. It
wasn’t planned, and it was just simply being out one night very late on my
own, walking back from a farm laborer’s cottage to my parent’s home with
no moon. It was completely dark. And suddenly finding myself completely
surrounded by elvers or baby eels on their way either to the nearby river or
to ponds, which were also in the fields I was walking through. It was just one
of those transformative moments.
