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Writing tagged: ‘expeditions’

Articles about walks/journeys I have made.

High tides and volant voles

An unplanned visit to the flooded Dee Marshes is rewarded with a wildlife spectacle.

Published 04-Jan-2018
Filed under: Featured Articles, Writing Tags: birds, black-headed gulls, Dee Marshes, expeditions, favourite places, gulls, proto-sidelines, voles, water rails, Wirral

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: Writing Tags: Dee Marshes, expeditions, photography, Wales, Wirral

The great Darwin fossil hunt

Fossil barnacles
Darwin's (and others people's) fossil barnacles. Natural History Museum.

For my 50th birthday, a friend beyond compare organised a very special birthday present for the only self-confessed ‘Darwin groupie’ in her life.

Published 17-Jun-2015
Filed under: Writing Tags: Charles Darwin, evolution, expeditions, fossils, history, history of science, pilgrimages, science, Stense

Prize-winning author lost on Moor

Julian Hoffman on the Moor

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

Published 08-Jan-2015
Filed under: Featured Articles, Published Pieces, Writing Tags: Calder Valley, Caught by the River, expeditions, favourite places, fog, Hebden Bridge, Julian Hoffman, On the Moor (book), the Moor, weather, Yorkshire

A new favourite place

Humphrey Head

A walk with an old friend on the Cumbrian coast.

Published 17-Oct-2014
Filed under: Writing Tags: Cumbria, expeditions, favourite places, Mike D, proto-sidelines

Seeing purple

The Moor in heather

The Moor is at peak-purple at this time of year, with the heather in full bloom.

Published 22-Aug-2014
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Calder Valley, expeditions, favourite places, heather, Hebden Bridge, materialism, photography, proto-sidelines, red grouse, spirituality, the Moor, Yorkshire

The nearly dead tree

The nearly-dead tree.

Each spring, I visit a particular corner of the Moor to check if an old friend has managed to survive another winter.

Published 18-Apr-2014
Filed under: Featured Articles, Writing Tags: beetles, birds, Calder Valley, expeditions, favourite places, Hebden Bridge, Johnny Turner, lapwings, proto-sidelines, rooks, the Moor, trees, willows, Yorkshire

In the wilderness of Wirral

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

Published 28-Feb-2014
Filed under: Featured Articles, Published Pieces, Writing Tags: Caught by the River, Dee Marshes, expeditions, favourite places, Wirral

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’.

Published 17-Nov-2013
Filed under: Featured Articles, Published Pieces, Writing Tags: Arthur Ransome, Caught by the River, Cumbria, expeditions, favourite places, Lake District, Mike D, pilgrimages

The return of the delicate flapwort

On a second expedition I made in search of a rare plant. This time, I accompanied someone who knew what he was doing.

Published 28-Oct-2013
Filed under: Featured Articles, Published Pieces, Writing Tags: bryology, Calder Valley, expeditions, favourite places, fungi, GrrlScientist, Guardian, Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge, Johnny Turner, science, Yorkshire

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