‘Notes from Walnut Tree Farm’ is by far my favourite Roger Deakin book. His assembled notes and jottings are packed full of ideas. The signal-to-noise ratio is phenomenal.
Notes from Nell Carr Farm
Articles
Hebden’s non-eponymous bridges
In which I describe a few of my favourite bridges from my photo-project ‘Hebden's Other Bridges’.
Keswick Woods
In which I return to a favourite childhood haunt after a gap of 40 years.
Using Scrivener as an Articles Register
How I use the Scrivener writing app to gather and organise a mass of vague ideas for future articles.
Bacon and X
Not wishing to boast, but Richard Carter didn't get C-minuses—and he certainly didn't get SEE MEs.
Invertigo
I’ve never seen stars remotely approaching those in Anglesey. There are so damn many of them. Thousand upon thousand. Too many to count.
LRB letter: ‘Weather-forecasting frogs’
On the unlikely 17th and 18th-century German fashion of keeping tree frogs to forecast the weather.
Pleasures of August
August on the Dee Marshes and the Pennine Moors, including encounters with a bolshie pheasant, a practising peregrine, and a flirty wheatear.
Keep a writing journal
…The best writing advice I ever received.
Life's too short for pristine notebooks
How I eventually overcame my reluctance to write in my precious notebooks.