Walking With Nature

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:53:02 +0000

Started reading: Ancient - Reviving the Woods That Made Britain by Luke Barley 📚

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 14:52:35 +0000

Started reading: The English Path by Kim Taplin 📚

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:39:52 +0000

Bird feeders scrubbed, dried, disinfected and refilled.

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:43:56 +0000

A particularly friendly robin caught in winter winds at RSPB Pulborough Brooks this afternoon.

Sun, 23 Nov 2025 13:58:36 +0000

Started reading: The Return of the Grey Partridge by Roger Morgan-Grenville 📚

Sun, 09 Nov 2025 19:23:24 +0000

Started reading: Time and Tide by Fiona Stafford 📚

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 13:52:41 +0000

Fungi season. The woods were full of them yesterday.

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 13:29:28 +0000

And then autumn is motorway rain and the dirty courts of service stations, greys and greases and the smeared crimson brake lights streaming into junctions, and days that seem to shut themselves down, disgusted and forgettable.

— Horatio Clare in Autumn, edited by Melissa Harrison 📚

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 13:16:21 +0000

Started reading: Autumn by Melissa Harrison 📚

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 11:12:06 +0000

Spending some quality late summer time with my girls and the local nature reserve.

Sun, 17 Aug 2025 08:35:44 +0000

Started reading: The Hard Way by Susannah Walker 📚

I think I’ll pass it on to my eldest daughter when I’m done.

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 23:04:48 +0000

Stunning work there, Mr Spider.

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 18:44:44 +0000

Currently reading: The Accidental Garden by Richard Mabey 📚

Starting to work my way through the Wainwright Prize shortlist.

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 07:07:36 +0000

Started reading: The Long Man & Friends: Sacred Sussex by Philip Carr-Gomm, David Bramwell 📚

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 22:16:22 +0000

Started reading: The Cuckoo’s Lea by Michael J. Warren 📚

Picked up one of the special independent bookshop editions from the Steyning Bookshop.

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 20:42:57 +0000

Stalking the storks at Knepp.

#mbjune day 1: Tree 📷

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 11:53:28 +0000

A stork flying overhead at Knepp.

Thu, 08 May 2025 13:29:26 +0000

Started reading: Waters of Life by Tom Bowser 📚

Thu, 08 May 2025 10:52:54 +0000

I do love a book full of beavers.

Just arrived, and I can’t wait to dive in…

Sun, 04 May 2025 16:23:09 +0000

Rowan Williams on David Attenborough:

There are people who seem to think concern for the natural world somehow sidelines characteristically human concerns. David Attenborough makes it clear deep attention to our environment nourishes all that is most humane and generous in us – and if we lose this capacity for caring attention, we lose our souls.

Oh, for more thoughtful, attentive people in public life.

Sun, 20 Apr 2025 08:15:37 +0000

Shoreham Beach, 6.45am, Easter Sunday

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 19:52:11 +0000

Travel from most countries to the US is dropping under Trump.

This is a presidency with no understanding of complexity. The second and third order effects of what they’re doing will be more and more painful to the average American.

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 08:49:18 +0000

Spring anemone.

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 09:31:10 +0000

Our first visit to Kingley Vale.

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:37:07 +0000

Interesting selection of stickers, found rather randomly on a Sussex gate.