I have been interviewed for the local HebWeb site.
Writing tagged: ‘On the Moor (book)’
28 June 2021
A walk around Ogden Water, and an encounter with a locally rare bird.
6 February 2020
A walk on the Moor, and some encouragement from my favourite writer.
20 September 2019
A walk on the Moor.
12 August 2019
Spotted on the Moor this Inglorious Twelfth: hen harriers (0); red grouse (0); gamekeepers (1).
8 July 2019
A walk on the Moor.
Where has all the heather gone?
The Moor is looking decidedly lacklustre this August.
Newsletter No. 12: ‘Unspeakable things beneath the shrubs’
Mark E Smith · Alan Bennett · Carl Linnaeus · Ronald Blythe · human evolution · flu epidemics · Great Exhibition of the North · Charles Darwin · insects · introverts · Virginia Woolf · John Tyndall
Newsletter No. 11: ‘Penguin eggs and yetis’
Sir Thomas Browne · Saturn · penguin eggs · heroes of science · evolution of languages · nature books · dna barcoding · periodic table · Alice Roberts · geology
Newsletter No. 10: ‘Book launch’
24-Nov-2017: 158 years ago today saw the publication of my hero Charles Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’. What better excuse could I possibly need for choosing today to launch my own book, ‘On the Moor: Science, History and Nature on a Country Walk’.