My 32-year streak climbing the same hill in North Wales on Christmas Eve has come to an end. 😕
Writing tagged: ‘Wales’
24 December 2019
My 32nd consecutive Christmas Eve ascent of Moel Famau in North Wales.
24 December 2018
My 31st consecutive Christmas Eve ascent of Moel Famau.
31 October 2018
Watching terns.
The Welsh side
In all my years visiting the Dee Marshes, I had never looked across them from the Welsh side.
Newsletter No. 2: Glorified monkeys
Anglesey · lost exploration craft rediscovered · writing advice from Rebecca Solnit · volcanic sunsets · Ted Hughes · typographical tips · a strange way to estimate π · Dull Men’s Club · street photography · free speech · Alexander von Humboldt
An irrelevance in the landscape
On the realisation that the natural world gets on perfectly well without us.
Seabird jizz
When you see a bird often enough, its jizz begins to rub off on you—if you'll pardon the expression.
Invertigo
I’ve never seen stars remotely approaching those in Anglesey. There are so damn many of them. Thousand upon thousand. Too many to count.
Back-endish
How a mere week can make a big difference in the natural world.