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Videos

Articles containing video footage.

2018: a year in photos

2018 slideshow

My eighth annual video slideshow.

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2017: a year in photos

2017 photos

My seventh annual video slideshow review of the year.

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2016: a year in photos

2016 in a nutshell

My sixth annual video slideshow review of the year.

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2015: a year in photos

Reading in the Guggenheim gallery, Venice

My fifth annual video slideshow review of the year.

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2014: a year in photos

View from Humphrey Head

My fourth annual video slideshow review of the year.

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2013: a year in photos

Buttercups!

My third annual video slideshow review of the year.

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Recent Articles

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  • 2018: a year in photos
    My eighth annual video slideshow.
  • Where has all the heather gone?
    The Moor is looking decidedly lacklustre this August.
  • The Rough Patch
    On the advantages of being a crap gardener.
  • Going camera-less
    Taking walks without lugging around a massive camera bag: it’ll never catch on!

Recent Newsletters

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  • Newsletter No. 16: Snippets of nature writing
    sidelines · Robert Macfarlane · Julian Hoffman · Amy Liptrot · Little Toller · Sir Thomas Browne · Tim Dee · Adam Nicolson · Julia Blackburn
  • Newsletter No. 15: Semi-immersed
    writing & research · milestones · Anthea Bell · island wardens · hillforts · pubs · oak trees · ancient ships · self-improvement · Mark Cocker · Jan Morris · Melissa Harrison
  • Newsletter No. 14: The terror Carter’s warriors
    Liverpool · chinese warriors · Ben Myers · shoes on wires · Patti Smith · Wuthering Heights · stratigraphy · astronomy · ancient DNA · storm petrels · LIMONCELLO ICE CREAM!!
  • Newsletter No. 13: Bramblings!
    bramblings · wheatears · Mary Beard · Beaker folk · Meera Sodha · recipes · John Tyndall · Eunice Foote · religion · Ben Myers · Austin Kleon · Walter Benjamin · giant sloths · Shetland · Neil Ansell · Charles Darwin

Recent Sidelines

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  • 2 December 2019
    Blackbirds and fieldfares all over our hawthorn.
  • 1 December 2019
    A walk around the lanes before sunset.
  • 30 November 2019
    Another frosty walk.
  • 29 November 2019
    A frosty walk.

Recent Reviews

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  • Book review: ‘Year of the Monkey’ by Patti Smith
    Further quirky memoirs.
  • Book review: ‘The Light in the Dark’ by Horatio Clare
    A winter journal.
  • Book review: ‘A Claxton Diary’ by Mark Cocker
    Further field notes from a small planet.
  • Book review: ‘Claxton’ by Mark Cocker
    Field notes from a small planet.

News

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  • An embarrassment of Richards
    In which my head appears on a spike (six times).
  • Introducing Sidelines
    A new section on my website dedicated to the (mostly nature) writing I write ‘on the side’. Definitely not a diary. Definitely not a blog.
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