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The wild rose, the willow warbler, and the rabbits: Summer walking diary
Delicious summer drizzle, rabbits on misty fields, heady perfumed flowers, a bounty of birds and the worlds best highland cow… Continue reading
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The weird horse and the buzzard – a brief encounter…
The horse begins to sidle, and I think its fair to say I’ve never seen a horse sidle before, along the pathway towards me… Continue reading
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Walking diaries*Summer*Stolen streamside solace…
A few metres onto the track, I stop, take a deep inhalation of the rain washed greenery… the air takes on that deeper, fuller quality under trees… Continue reading
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Love letter to May…
In May, nature simply lifts a veil, and life flows in with wild and natural fervour. At this moment, the vibration of spring unleashed fills the air. Continue reading
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Walking Diaries*Spring* Conquering the lost footpath…
The golden shafts from the canopy glitter with intensified force and mystery – reinforcing the feeling that the forest is mistress in these depths – and they illuminate a suddenly clear track ahead… Continue reading
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Love letter to the Winter Spring crossing…
No other season change evokes this feeling. An infinitely peaceful, quieted world, that thrums with fierce hope and expectation. The close of winter offers a bold open landscape, a tribute to nature’s evolution. The first burst of spring absorbs its… Continue reading
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Walking Diaries*Winter*The Wild of the Moorland
Beyond the trees, the land opens out, untamed and barren – tussocks of long grass the only relief to open plains of waterlogged ground. The wind travels unhindered across these flat moors, insisting on its wildness with every breath… Continue reading
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Walking Diaries*Winter*Chasing the sunlight…
Dry stone walls ramble, reassuringly ancient, over the bare winter mountain, accentuating its stark seasonal architecture. They are innocuous but immovable, like tenacious bones of history – holding the landscape together. Continue reading
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Bird Therapy – The RSPB Big Garden Mood Lift…
As we sit, we soak in the melodic interludes of song, accompanied by the ethereal swish of the wind through bare winter branches. You can smell the rain in the air, the damp chill freshness, combined with the earthy scents… Continue reading
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Walking Diaries *Autumn* Cocooning calm on the canal-side…
Is there anything more tranquil than the gentle plop of a duck into the still waters of a canal? Soft autumn colours, tranquil reflections and comical birds in a gentle leaf-dusted ramble… Continue reading
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5 simple reasons why anyone should be bird-watching for mood and mental health…
It was just me and that blackbird on the grey dawn street, and it looked straight at me and started to sing again. I can’t completely put into words the strange little swell of feeling that filtered through me… like… Continue reading
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Walking Diary *Summer* Cliffs, Coves and Choughs in wildest Cornwall
There is no walk quite like a Cornish cliff top. And today’s weather has furnished us with that most quintessential of Celtic weather systems, a blowy mizzler. .. Continue reading
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Walking Diary*Summer* Hidden pools in the land of lost treasure
As I step over the stile onto the path proper, I feel like I am in wonderland. There is not another soul in sight, butterflies are darting back and forth all around me amongst the long grass, and skylarks are… Continue reading
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Walking Diary*Summer* Adventure beyond the fallen oak…
This sort of looks like it could once have been a path, but directly ahead of me a huge limb has been severed from a living oak, and it is impossible to progress in this direction without going either over… Continue reading
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Walking Diary*Spring* Hazy sun and cockerels herald the season
The weather feels relatively mild for March, and there is a soft haze in the air, not quite sunshine, but that pre-sun light, where the sun sits behind the thinnest layer of cloud – strong enough to cast faint shadows… Continue reading
