Landscape Writing
Project Notes: Besides The Seaside
“Besides The Seaside” is an ongoing body of work glancing at our sometimes complex relationship with the coast. Why “besides” not ‘beside”? Well, it’s quite a long story. With a little serendipity. The project started life years ago as “Coast”. …
Notes Made Whilst… sauntering: 1 July 2020
Notes made whilst sauntering: 1 July 2020. ~ a long familiar place, unvisited for decade or so ~ wind, carrying drizzle, in branches ~ grass snake swimming amidst horsetails ~ the great sickness, for a while, far away ~ half…
Emotional Mountains
I’m not one of those folk who ascribe motives or emotions to mountains. A mountain, whether Kinder or K2, is just a lump of rock, maybe covered with slippery and/or squelchy bits. Any treachery, cruelty, intimidation, or indeed welcoming friendliness,…
Winter’s Calling
Late November, the dark peak. Winter is home again on these high moors, mewling in with chill-lash days of sleet and gale. With fellhard testing days of hail obscured horizons and roaring, bed broaching brooks.