Walking With Nature

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:49:06 +0100

Started reading: Osprey by John Lister-Kaye 📚

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:25:04 +0100

My weekend’s reading sorted…

Thanks, @littletollerbooks.bsky.social !

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:28:20 +0100

Pre-strategy workshop breakfast in Market Deeping.

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 08:29:08 +0100

Well, this is exciting — a wild pine marten spotted just down the road from me in Worthing. It’s the first time in over a century.

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:20:58 +0100

Enjoying a solstice party on the beach.

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:28:37 +0100

Trees don’t run you over; they don’t shout at you or nick your mobile. In fact there’s a good argument to say that trees are better than people.

— Jeremy Vine, in Broadleaf, the @woodlandtrust.org.uk magazine.

Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:24:24 +0100

Started reading: Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark by Dan Richards 📚

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:53:02 +0100

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

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:52:35 +0100

Started reading: The English Path by Kim Taplin 📚

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:39:52 +0100

Bird feeders scrubbed, dried, disinfected and refilled.

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:43:56 +0100

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

Sun, 23 Nov 2025 14:58:36 +0100

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

Sun, 09 Nov 2025 20:23:24 +0100

Started reading: Time and Tide by Fiona Stafford 📚

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 14:52:41 +0100

Fungi season. The woods were full of them yesterday.

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 14:29:28 +0100

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 14:16:21 +0100

Started reading: Autumn by Melissa Harrison 📚

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 12:12:06 +0100

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

Sun, 17 Aug 2025 09:35:44 +0100

Started reading: The Hard Way by Susannah Walker 📚

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

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:04:48 +0100

Stunning work there, Mr Spider.

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 19:44:44 +0100

Currently reading: The Accidental Garden by Richard Mabey 📚

Starting to work my way through the Wainwright Prize shortlist.

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 08:07:36 +0100

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

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 23:16:22 +0100

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 21:42:57 +0100

Stalking the storks at Knepp.

#mbjune day 1: Tree 📷

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 12:53:28 +0100

A stork flying overhead at Knepp.

Thu, 08 May 2025 14:29:26 +0100

Started reading: Waters of Life by Tom Bowser 📚