A five minute walk from my door gets me to Beeston Station, where in Wednesday’s bright sunshine Jasper and I took the 09:25 to Matlock by way of Long Eaton, Derby and the Amber Valley halts of Duffield, Belper, Ambergate, … Read More »
It’s seldom discussed in polite circles but an unleashed dog can aid the avian photographer. A tyro trying to raise his game, I last night consulted one site’s top tips for freeze-framing birds in flight. Heading the list was learning … Read More »
On Tuesday Jasper and I took the bus to Long Eaton, getting off at Nelson Street where road runs parallel to Erewash Canal, with only the tow path and a knee high brick wall between the two. We walked that … Read More »
With today forecast as the last day of this gorgeous if worrying weather, I took the kayak out for the first time since the Norfolk Broads in August. I put in at Trentlock, where the Erewash Canal joins the Trent … Read More »
Attenborough Nature Reserve and River Trent this morning.
It’s worryingly early and, with temperature highs of eighteen centigrade – that’s close to sixty-five fahrenheit for oldsters like me – uncommon warm. But that’s no excuse for not getting out to enjoy the upside. Today around Attenborough and River … Read More »
Deaconess: For all who are victims of trafficking and enforced prostitution … Choir singing: Lord hear our prayer. Deaconess: For all who are victims of violence, racism and murder … Choir singing: Lord hear our prayer. * I’ve had race … Read More »
The Mississippi this morning … A walk down Magazine Street to Lafayette Cemetery, stopping for coffee, shelter from ten minute deluge and po’ boy lunch. Tour of the graves. Mahdi Gras preparations everywhere. Streetcar up St Charles Avenue to Audubon … Read More »
Yesterday freezing fog hung over the Trent, and hills, woods and fields of Notts, Derbyshire and Leicestershire. For the second time this week, but in transformed weather conditions, I walked with a Sheffield pal, this one of forty years standing. … Read More »
Cold and sunny: the best weather you can get for White Peak walking. Hiking buddie Sue and I now live forty miles apart but an hour’s drive north for me, the same south for Sue, brought us to Tissington. Parking … Read More »