Writing Workshop
In case any readers of this blog live in Norfolk and are themselves writers I am taking a writing workshop at Greshams School in Holt on…
To Tame or Conquer the Flood?
At the request of Peter Devery via Twitter I have posted below the reply I wrote to a daft letter about flooding published in The Times…
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…
All the futures we have wished for
Some of you might be interested in the letter I have written in reply to a (very nice) letter from a member of Wycombe Council’s projects…
Rising Damp
Someone in the audience at the Electric Palace in Bridport asked if I’d ever read the poem Rising Damp by UA (Ursula but published as UA) Fanthorpe.…
Riding chalk.
Frome, Wraxall, Sydling, Cerne, Piddle, Devil’s Brook, Bere Stream, Allen, Ebble, Avon, Bourne, Wallop, Test, Dever, Misbourne, Chess, Gade, Lea, Mimram, Shep, Cam, Granta, Snail, Wissey,…
Something better change?
My blog seems big on dredging these last few months, but with the government’s DIY dredging schemes recently unveiled the issue has taken on some urgency. Politicians from…
Canute and the river
Click here for a fascinating explanation and video by Paul Gaskell and the Wild Trout Trust on the real impact of dredging. Paul used an Emriver kit…
Clare Leighton’s bodgers
I’ve just discovered this lovely, sculptural woodcut of bodgers in the beech woods of Buckinghamshire by Clare Leighton. Weird how you bump into these things: I…
The Weird of Billy No-Toes
I am honoured more than I can say to print here a poem by Will Burns, inspired by a character described in my book Silt Road,…
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