Jan 10, 20211 minDO YOU REMEMBER?DO YOU REMEMBER last autumn (...) how it was filled with a brief and incredulous interlockdown bustle?..
Nov 23, 20205 minAbout The Place Where We Are Not Supposed To Be APART FROM CARRYING my 10 kg rucksack on my back plus a 2 kg tripod, I was also carrying a heavy burden of guilt...
Aug 23, 20203 minHow I Nearly Hopped From Peak to Peak to SkiddawOh, how I wanted to climb Skiddaw! I really did! I studied diligently the writings of Wainwright, that Lakeland genius, and others, of...
Aug 13, 20202 minEmbraced by the Big Wide WorldHmm, let me think... When was the last time that I wrote for my English blog?.. Oh, yes! When I went out into the Big Wide World! Exactly...
Feb 6, 20192 minHow to Go Out Into the Big Wide WorldFIRST you trudge through deep snow, across the roadless woods and fields, stepping into the moose‘s footsteps, pressed deep into...
Dec 19, 20182 minWinter Solstice and ITODAY THE EARTH has stopped turning us, the Northerners, away from the Sun. It will wait for a few days and will then begin to turn it’s...
Aug 31, 20183 minTHE FIRST SIPS OF MORNING COFFEE (A Story of a Naïve Wildlife Photographer)I WOKE UP WELL BEFORE SUNRISE and peeked out of the window. It was as if a cloud had descended – the thick white fog had filled every gap...
Aug 18, 20183 minA Brush With the Spirit Of an Abandoned OrchardTHAT AFTERNOON I headed in a new direction. I had always wanted to explore that part of our parish. A friend took me there some ten years...
Aug 10, 20182 minSad Thoughts of a Happy LonerEVEN HAPPY LONERS have sad thoughts sometimes. During those spells of sadness you have to persevere on your journey to happiness, in...
