The sights, sounds and smells of simple excursions into nature…
Ten minute escape pods for when you don’t have time to go yourself…
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Walking Diaries*Autumn*A spooky dusk walk into the Wild Wood
It is T-minus 90 minutes till sundown. The impending dusk is creeping up the mountain like an embarrassed ghost. Strange rustles in the undergrowth could be furry creatures preparing for bed, or they could be dark ghouls with the stolen souls of dead mushrooms.
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Walking Diaries*Autumn*Season of mists and fellow bootiness…
On a thickly foggy October morning, the high mountaintops beckoned me. The low autumn sun shimmered through a veiled sky, gilding the russet leaves in gold, and forming magical landscapes that emerged and evolved from the mist…
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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…
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Walking Diaries*Autumn*The secrets of the mountain..
A journey into a cloaked landscape.
Skies overcast with the palest of greys have rendered a flat, still light, hiding the depth and contrast of the hills.
It is like nature, in the midst of its magnificent tumble into autumn, has chosen to have a little snooze – to rest a moment from the…
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Walking Diaries*Autumn* Forest life from the coal dust…
Today’s walk heads into the land of deep evergreens grown upon the spoil of our mining past. A mountain whose landscape has changed and evolved through the mists of time…
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Walking Diaries*Autumn* The magical light of Equinox
The night has fought at last to equal length, and the shadows of the year are creeping up behind the trees. Despite this, the morning light of the low autumn sun is bright – iridescent – and this landscape on the brink of change feels never more in tune with the magic at its heart.
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Walking Diaries*Autumn*The bracken turns to bronze…
The mountain landscape, gilded in low autumn sun, is at the very cusp of change. Verdant green oaks spill their prolific bounty to the ground below, mingling with the first russet leaf-drop.
On the open hillside above, the bright green ferns, bejewelled with raindrops, sit aside their newly bronzed companions. The hazy light softens the…
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Walking Diaries *Autumn*The first whispers on the wind…
Enter that liminal time where summer flowers are fading, but autumn colours have not yet ripened. It prompts us to rove the landscape for bright splashes, hints of magic, and bold defiers of the lengthening night…
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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. ..
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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 rising from the ground and whirling overhead…
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