Category Archives: nature
Salt to King’s Bromley the slow way
Does this place look familiar? Right down to the concrete fence post, cracked and crooked? Then I guess you read my post, earlier this month, King’s Bromley to Sawley by slow boat, one of whose early images was this: Both … Read More »
King’s Bromley to Sawley by slow boat
Wednesday: day two: 07:15. The weir comes as an unpleasant surprise. I overnighted on Branston Golf Course, a mile upstream of Burton, to arise at six. Sleeping and bivvy bags rolled up and stowed, my scan of parched grass – … Read More »
This morning on Stanage Edge
This used to be a two hour hike from my door at Hunters Bar, Sheffield: the walk itself a delight known as the Porter Valley. Now it’s seventy minutes up the M1. Worth it though. This morning I was on … Read More »
A glimpse of Norfolk
Taken last week, in and around Wells-next-the-Sea.
Lakelandscapes
Long Close Farm, looking southeast from the Powterhow Wood shore, across Redness Point on the southern end of Bassenthwaite. Shot from several hundred yards away, on a long telephoto lens, in the soft light of early morning. Derwentwater from Crow … Read More »
East Sussex this week
On Hastings Pier looking west toward St Leonards More Hastings Cuckmere Valley from High & Over looking downstream to Cuckmere Haven Cuckmere Valley below High & Over looking upstream towards Alfriston On the South Downs Rathfinny vineyard Dave – man … Read More »
Attenborough this week
Magpies nesting
By middle of March a pair of magpies were nest building in a cherry tree at foot of our garden, two metres from a three-storey house whose east facing end wall overlooks the back of ours. That wall shelters the … Read More »
Magpies, jackals and animal altruism
I say, I say: why did the magpie help the hedgehog across the road? No, it’s not a joke. It happened for real, was caught on a dashcam and the footage uploaded to YouTube. So why did the magpie peck … Read More »