Writing tagged: ‘Caught by the River’

  • Pleasures of August

    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.

  • Prize-winning author lost on Moor

    Prize-winning author lost on Moor

    When your instincts and your compass disagree, trust your instincts. I mean your compass.

  • Back-endish

    Back-endish

    How a mere week can make a big difference in the natural world.

  • In the wilderness of Wirral

    In the wilderness of Wirral

    An unwelcome modern intrusion into one of my favourite wildernesses takes me on an unplanned medieval journey in reverse.

  • Wild Cat Island

    Wild Cat Island

    Three and a half decades after I first became enchanted by the place, I finally set foot on the island that inspired Arthur Ransome’s ‘Swallows and Amazons’.