The Junket
Robert Macfarlane writes: A few years ago, word reached me that several of my former students, turned friends, had founded an unnamed society whose main medium was the walk and whose main method was the re-tracing of variously interesting routes and paths: dot-to-dotting London cemeteries, for instance, or walking to Canterbury in a day along [...]
Richardson In Zanderland
30 October 2011 // Richardson in Zanderland
‘Words on Water’ illustrator, John Richardson, has upped sticks and moved east. Here’s how he’s getting on: Zanderland is Appleland All over England it was Appleday on Friday (Oct 21st) and here in Zanderland we’ve truly got a surfeit of riches. After a summer that didn’t quite mature into a summer and both of us [...]
Field Works: Photographs From East Anglia (Final Weekend)
29 October 2011 // Photography
An exhibition of work by Justin Partyka. White House Farm, Great Glemham (nr. Saxmundham), Suffolk, IP17 1LS – www.aldevalleyspringfestival.co.uk The final weekend of the exhibition is open both Saturday and Sunday from 11am until around 5pm. Complimentary refreshments are available and on Sunday afternoon (from around 3pm) lamb from the farm will be served. Justin [...]
Sweet Thames Run Softly
The introduction to the 2011 edition of Robert Gibbings 1940 classic, Sweet Thames Run Softly. Written by Luke Jennings, for Little Toller Books. When picking up Sweet Thames Run Softly, you might wonder if Robert Gibbings is your ideal companion. The river runs a considerable length, and you might consider that his didactic manner, and [...]
Name That Tune
illustration by Jon McNaught Words by Cheryl Tipp. An extract from the new Caught by the River book, On Nature. To be able to identify a bird by its voice alone can be extremely rewarding. The human ear is a highly sensitive device and together with the brain is more than capable of learning and [...]
Low Water at Meare
by Paul Cowlishaw. It was another unusually mild October morning. There was a light breeze from the south- west and when the sun broke through the gaps in the cloud there were bursts of warmth. I stood, facing downstream, on the stone bridge over the River Brue just below Manor Farm, rod and net in [...]
The Last River Rat
BBC – Natural World – Mississippi, Tales of the Last River Rat: A stunningly photographed portrait of the wildlife and landscape of the Mississippi River seen through the eyes of ‘River Rat’ Kenny Salwey, a legendary hunter, trapper and author who lives off the land and shares his watery haunts with beavers, snapping turtles, sturgeons, [...]
Matt Sewell’s Birds of the Week
24 October 2011 // Matt's Bird of the Week //Shop
Badge pack number three: Starling, Tawney Owl, Linnet & Waxwing Now on sale in the shop.
In The Papers
Some recent press articles of interest: A Life In Writing: Ronald Blythe by Patrick Barkham. The track down which Ronald Blythe first walked in 1947 sinks into a valley on the border between Suffolk and Essex and ends at Bottengoms Farm. Everything in the rambling garden is blazing on an oddly hot autumn day. The [...]
Memories Of My Favourite Tackle Shop
by James Chudley. Like many fishermen I absolutely love tackle shops. It’s a combination of the kit, the banter, the stories and the characters who tell them and in my case the fact that I was once lucky enough to work in one. Back in the early 1990’s I got wind that a new tackle [...]
