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New moon, Mercury and Venus setting over Heptonstall

Giving fiascos a bad name

How not to make a simple three-minute podcast piece.

Published 20-Jul-2020
Filed under: Articles, Writing Tags: bats, Calder Valley, Darwin book, Hebden Bridge, Melissa Harrison, podcasts, YNWA
C18 engraving of Selborne

Gilbert White’s influence on Charles Darwin

To mark the 300th anniversary of his birth, a brief account of Rev. Gilbert White’s influence on Charles Darwin.

Published 18-Jul-2020
Filed under: Articles, Writing Tags: Charles Darwin, Gilbert White
Silent Night
Silent Night

Grandma’s organ donation

On the mysterious arrival, and equally mysterious disappearance, of a Wurlitzer organ.

Published 10-Aug-2017
Filed under: Articles, Writing Tags: reminiscences
Orion
A small section of the Milky Way galaxy (Orion's Belt, centre).

Orion’s belt-buckle

In celebration of my adopted star.

Published 20-Jun-2017
Filed under: Articles, Featured Writing, Writing Tags: astronomy, reminiscences, science
Trig point

‘Spiritual’ won’t do

In which I seek a better word to describe a profoundly uplifting sensation.

Published 23-Apr-2017
Filed under: Articles, Featured Writing, Writing Tags: humanism, religion, skepticism, the Moor
Shotwick Church

Undermining religious tradition: a time-honoured religious tradition

Religious tradition has been being ‘undermined’ in Britain since recorded history began—most of the time by people of a distinctly religious persuasion.

Published 04-Apr-2017
Filed under: Articles, Writing Tags: religion, secularism, skepticism

The Welsh side

In all my years visiting the Dee Marshes, I had never looked across them from the Welsh side.

Published 03-Mar-2017
Filed under: Articles, Writing Tags: Dee Marshes, expeditions, photography, Wales, Wirral
Hen harrier
Female hen harrier.

The joy of the familiar—and the unfamiliar—on a local patch

Getting to know a place well means knowing what to look forward to, and appreciating when something unusual happens.

Published 11-Nov-2016
Filed under: Articles, Featured Writing, Writing Tags: birds, Calder Valley, favourite places, flowers, golden plovers, harebells, heather, Hebden Bridge, hen harriers, kestrels, lapwings, meadow pipits, red grouse, snipe, swallows, the Moor, wheatears, Yorkshire
The Fall

An atheist somehow manages to tell right from wrong

To think of all the deliciously immoral acts I could have been getting up to today, if only it had occurred to me I needn’t be impeded by any sense of right or wrong.

Published 07-Nov-2016
Filed under: Articles, Writing Tags: atheism, humanism, religion
Puffin Island

An irrelevance in the landscape

On the realisation that the natural world gets on perfectly well without us.

Published 03-Oct-2016
Filed under: Articles, Featured Writing, Writing Tags: Anglesey, birds, cormorants, dolphins, favourite places, gannets, grey seals, gulls, herring gulls, Manx shearwaters, nature waiting, oystercatchers, turnstones, Wales
Notes on Notes From Walnut Tree Farm
My notes on ‘Notes From Walnut Tree Farm’.

Notes from Nell Carr Farm

‘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.

Published 27-Sep-2016
Filed under: Articles, Published Pieces, Writing Tags: Caught by the River, Charles Darwin, Gilbert White, Roger Deakin
Hebden's Other Bridges

Hebden’s non-eponymous bridges

In which I describe a few of my favourite bridges from my photo-project ‘Hebden's Other Bridges’.

Published 25-Jul-2016
Filed under: Articles, Published Pieces, Writing Tags: Calder Valley, Caught by the River, Dalesman magazine, Hebden Bridge, Hebden’s Other Bridges (book), photography, Yorkshire

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