Writing

Let’s go!

By the time he was my age, John Lennon had been dead for almost ten years.
A new favourite place

A walk with an old friend on the Cumbrian coast.
Autumn alignments

Our kitchen might not be of World Heritage site calibre just yet, but each autumn there comes a reminder that our house sits on the same spinning rock as Stonehenge and Newgrange.
Back-endish

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

My point-and-shoot camera turned out to be the best camera in the world yesterday.
Book review: ‘The Making of the Fittest’ by Sean B Carroll

DNA and the ultimate forensic record of evolution.
Seeing purple

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

When bookshelves become full, only the fittest volumes survive.
Book review: ‘A Rough Ride to the Future’ by James Lovelock

A thought-provoking, sometimes infuriating book.
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

An unwelcome modern intrusion into one of my favourite wildernesses takes me on an unplanned medieval journey in reverse.
2013: a year in photos

My third annual video slideshow review of the year.