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Writing tagged: ‘Mike D’

Moel Famau, Christmas Eve 2018
Moel Famau, Christmas Eve 2018

End of a streak

My 32-year streak climbing the same hill in North Wales on Christmas Eve has come to an end. 😕

Published 24-Dec-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: Carolyn, coronavirus, Mike D, Stense, Wales

29 June 2019

A moth, midges, water-boatmen, and a spider.

Published 29-Jun-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: Calder Valley, chimney sweeper moths, dogs, Hebden Bridge, insects, Manchester, midges, Mike D, spiders

9 January 2019

Log-splitting.

Published 09-Jan-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: Manchester, Mike D, trees

Tales of derring-don't

I'm beginning to wonder whether I might inadvertently have begun to invent a new sub-genre of ‘nature writing’.

Published 15-Jan-2015
Filed under: Articles, Writing Tags: Mike D, Stense
Humphrey Head

A new favourite place

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

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: Articles, Featured Writing, Published Pieces, Writing Tags: Arthur Ransome, Caught by the River, Cumbria, expeditions, favourite places, Lake District, Mike D, pilgrimages

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