Stense – Richard Carter

Comfort books

A conversation with a friend about the books that have brought us comfort over the years.

Moel Famau, Christmas Eve 2018

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

A strange bird.

A bird, a mammal, and an amphibian.

Dee Marshes, Parkgate, sunset

Dinner with a friend, and a Dee sunset.

Sorting the poetic wheat from chaff.

…The best writing advice I ever received.

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.

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