Writing tagged: ‘Wales’
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End of a streak
My 32-year streak climbing the same hill in North Wales on Christmas Eve has come to an end. 😕
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24 December 2019
My 32nd consecutive Christmas Eve ascent of Moel Famau in North Wales.
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24 December 2018
My 31st consecutive Christmas Eve ascent of Moel Famau.
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31 October 2018
Watching terns.
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The Welsh side
In all my years visiting the Dee Marshes, I had never looked across them from the Welsh side.
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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 • and more…
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An irrelevance in the landscape
On the realisation that the natural world gets on perfectly well without us.
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Seabird jizz
When you see a bird often enough, its jizz begins to rub off on you—if you’ll pardon the expression.
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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.
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Back-endish
How a mere week can make a big difference in the natural world.
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Anglesey
About my—and my mum’s—childhood holidays on the Welsh island of Anglesey.