A sound I haven’t heard in 15 years (a story of hope)
Dr Nick Askew
Almost 20 years ago, I remember sitting outside my in-laws’ house on a summer’s evening, listening to the soft, rhythmic churring of a Turtle Dove calling from an old ash tree at the end of the field. It was just part of the background. Something you expected to be there. And then one year, it wasn’t. Not gradually. Just… gone.