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2020 was the year I moved back to the South West after a brief spell in Norfolk - although to my mind it felt less like moving and and more like running…
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Audio: A Compendium of Thoughts About Possessions
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A Compendium Of Thoughts About Possessions
I often fantasise about having no possessions. Well, maybe not none, but the bare minimum: the amount you could easily shove into a medium-size van. The…
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SOME INTERDIMENSIONAL PORTALS I HAVE COME ACROSS DURING WALKS IN THE BRITISH COUNTRYSIDE
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The True Stories Behind Some Of The Photos In The 1970s Habitat Catalogues
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Househunting On Behalf Of My Cat: A Poem
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Photos And Some Other Things Currently On My Mind
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A Factual Report Of An Encounter With Some Cows During A Walk in England
Cows were like, ‘What are you doing in our field?’ and I was like, ‘Well, it’s actually a public footpath. It says so over there, on a sign.’ And cows…
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MEMORIES OF THE TIME I RENTED SOME LEAPING DEER
It was autumn: everything was dying, including me, but the attractive beckoning mists of that season were underway, and I was in a “seize the day” kind…
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Househunting On Behalf Of My Cat: A Poem
I am househunting on behalf of my cat But there doesn’t seem to be much on the market right now It is not as if she is asking for the moon on a stick…
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The Black Tree
The Black Tree was what everyone in the village called it. Nobody alive remembered a time when it hadn’t been there or hadn’t been black. A perplexing…
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Old Photos
I sometimes forget that in a pre-smartphone age most people didn’t take a lot of photos of their everyday life. My family did, and I am thankful for…
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THE MYSTIC HEDGE: A PHOTO ESSAY ABOUT ANOTHER QUITE UNSETTLING CORNISH WALK
Winter was finally over, the wild garlic had shot its load, and, although the car boot sale had been rained off, the sun was attempting to prise apart…
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Reviews Of Some Crisps I Have Eaten Recently
Isn’t it great that we no longer have public beheadings in the UK, as well as having central heated houses and toilet roll and vinyl records and…
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New writing and podcasting on landscape, music, books, folklore, psychedelia, the natural world and other misty magical things outside the mainstream.
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