The seeds of Lara’s new EP were sown in Cambridge Botanic Gardens when her Dad nabbed the beekeeper for a chat. That image became a poem, became a tune and became the song 'the man who keeps the bees'. The songs were all written at home, with inspiration gained during the solitude of lockdown from memories, nostalgia, and the space which allowed expression of emotions that may otherwise have remained quiet.

The recording of the voice and guitar was done in the corner of my sitting room and the tracks sent to Chris in the studio, the photos taken near me in a local wildlife spot at a suitable social distance.

I wrote Ammonite for a friend of mine who has searched for fossils on a Dorset beach since she was a kid. It uses some of the things she said to me about how she feels when she opens a new fossil. In the song, I talk of ammonites as being ‘a curlew’s cry, dug from the mud’ and also reference Mary Anning, really connecting the sense of place of the beach, the history of fossil hunting, and how humbling it is finding something that was once on the sea bed in your hands.