Before We Leave

an archive of people, place and nature over the passage of time

Before We Leave began as a promise: to honour the Cumbrian village that has been our home for nearly thirty years. It is growing into an archive of people, place, and nature over the passage of time.

Before we leave our cottage in Cumbria, drawn by dreams of Cornwall's distant coast, we face the aching distance it will put between us and our only child. …