Writing tagged: ‘favourite places’

  • 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.

  • Bloodless grouse-shoot

    Bloodless grouse-shoot

    After 20 years walking on the Moor, I finally bag a brace of decent grouse photos.

  • Grouse in winter

    Grouse in winter

    How red grouse change their habits in cold weather.

  • 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.

  • A new favourite place

    A new favourite place

    A walk with an old friend on the Cumbrian coast.

  • Back-endish

    Back-endish

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

  • The best camera

    The best camera

    My point-and-shoot camera turned out to be the best camera in the world yesterday.

  • Seeing purple

    Seeing purple

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Anglesey

    Anglesey

    About my—and my mum’s—childhood holidays on the Welsh island of Anglesey.

  • 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’.