Why Dredging Is Not The Answer
I wondered if the next wave of floods would reignite the idea that dredging prevents flooding. When your living room is ruined and your sofa is…
All At Sea
Some photos from my time on the pair-trawler Adorne: a tough, sick-making, humbling, uplifting and fascinating week on the North Sea. The word-story will be in my…
Paperbacks Are Here
As is traditional, a year minus one day from the hardback publication of Silt Road, the paperbacks are here. They look great. The title is a…
Salmon in the heart of England
It would be difficult to get further from the sea as the crow flies, let alone as the salmon swims, than Rowsley in Derbyshire, but salmon…
The Impact of Dredging
A few months ago I mentioned that Owen Patterson (Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) was planning a relaxation of the by-laws governing…
The Palimpsest of Rivers
Question: what do these six English chalk-streams have in common and what makes this one New Zealand spring-creek so different? Answer: all the chalk streams have…
High Wycombe Library Events
I’ll be reading excerpts from and talking about Silt Road in High Wycombe this coming week. On Wednesday 17th I’ll be at Flackwell Heath Community Library…
Caught by the River – review of Silt Road
John Andrews has written a really great review of Silt Road for Caught by the River. “Silt Road is not a book centred solely around the post-millennial…
Hunstanton’s Own Sisyphus
We haven’t seen him for a long time, even though we walk our dog under the cliffs late afternoons. Not every day, but maybe once a…
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