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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, Dee marshes, expeditions, favourite places, proto-sidelines, 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, 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, Hebden Bridge, Julian Hoffman, On the Moor (book), the Moor, 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: Calder valley, expeditions, favourite places, Hebden Bridge, photography, proto-sidelines, 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: Calder valley, expeditions, favourite places, Hebden Bridge, Johnny Turner, proto-sidelines, the Moor, trees, 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, GrrlScientist, Guardian, Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge, Johnny Turner, science, Yorkshire

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