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What I’ve been reading this week, 28 February 2021
Shooting the breeze, bending nature writing out of shape, in pursuit of purity, and is walking just a joyless trudge?
My first issue of Sidetracked magazine as editor: a learning curve, ice bears, and that Gucci cover
Our best issue yet, and my first at the helm, but one not without controversy.
What I’ve been reading this week, 21 February 2021
A battle for birdsong, Slow Ways, a moment of surrender, and writer's blockdown.
What I’ve been reading this week, 13 February 2021
A month of snow, a dark miracle, hard knocks on Ben Nevis, and the business of writing.
Review: Thrunotes waterproof hiking notebooks
A collection of waterproof, pocket-sized notebooks for recording your outdoor adventures.
What I’ve been reading this week, 31 January 2021
Kit help and hindrance, time travel, the style debate on K2, and where book publishing is heading in 2021.
What I’ve been reading this week, 17 January 2020
The wings of change, a contested landscape, hot tenting, and a history of women walking.
What I’ve been reading this week, 9 January 2020
Snowshoes in Scotland, the Olivetti Lettera 22 at seventy, the aesthetics of editing, and outdoor books to get lost in.
Nature Notes: my last walk of 2020 through Gunby Park
Wildlife, sunshine, frost, mist, and favourite local views If 2020 has been the year of keeping it local, then my New Year’s Eve walk has reinforced that theme. I have walked through the Gunby parkland hundreds of times over the last few years and at least 200 times this
My top images of 2020
Connections, light, and learning: a look at the best of my wildlife and landscape photography this year. In the past I’ve sometimes selected five top images from the year. It’s a useful exercise, but this year I’ve failed to narrow it down anywhere near as tightly. I
