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May 4th 2025 I like the unpath best – Nan Shepherd quoting a child in The Living Mountain Introduction It may as well be summer although for me May is late spring. Bluebells are still in the woods, swifts only just arriving in the south of the country. Not yet the north, because I’ve checked […]
April 27th 2025 We pluck out of duration those moments that interest us, and that we have gathered along its course. These alone we retain Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution Introduction There’s no such thing as a favourite month when April can be like August, September like July, May like December. The varying light is […]
April 17th 2025 Introduction I remember this time in 2024. Suddenly we were fourth, then fifth month into the year after winter. What happened? There seemed a shift in the experience of time. We want it to stop, so it passes slowly. Then it does, which feels faster. Anyway here it is again, approaching halfway, […]
April 12th 2025 Introduction Spring is uppermost for this Footnotes but as a conclusion, in relation to seasonal change and the impact it has. The landscape is very different. More colourful, alive, vibrant, vivid, and green. In photographic terms you sometimes see green described as boring which it might be if there are no other […]
April 1st 2025 Introduction If you’re one of the UK “outdoor community” on social media, you may remember a gear retailer who made “podcasts.” They stopped trading recently, replaced with Valley and Peak. Bob and Rose were pleasant, known for customer service, which included sweeties with your order and a phone call from Rose: “Hello. […]
March 23rd 2025 Introduction Spring is undeniably here although still with cold says. I walked in one of my habitual places checking on the wild flower progress. Most striking however were several large areas of meadowsweet, my summer favourite. It looked like a messily farmed field with cut grass which had fallen and died. I […]
March 18th 2025 Introduction I’m watching the weather for warmth. Today it’s ten degrees not five which it was last week. I sometimes think of this as an elemental battle or as the Greeks understood it, with the gods. Beira is the Scottish goddess of winter. A few thousand miles away, this is the story […]
March 16th 2025 Introduction Some years ago I met a woman giving away a large pile of walking magazines. She was moving to Austria and we talked about her collection, the UK, and her new home. We agreed Austria was superb, and also on the predictability of Britain. “It’s always the same” she said meaning […]
March 12th 2025 Introduction Like many other people I’ve reduced my engagements at X, formerly Twitter, after recent changes. Not for politics reasons as such, but because the platform is even more political, which I dislike. That’s partly the reason. The other development is the insertion of Grok into X, which means a machinic rather […]
