Adventure under Sail
Going to sea again – a special treat in a time when UK covid lockdown is pealed away layer by layer, like the skins of an onion. We are aboard tall ship Pelican of London […]
Learning
Frosted Bluebell
Working from home during lockdown saves me and my carbon footprint a daily 1.5 h commute and I have more flexibility with when and how I start my day. Some mornings just beckon a walk […]
Shopping!
Today Covid-19 lockdown restrictions in England eased a little, with ‘non-essential’ shops opening, along with outdoor catering, hair salons and zoos…. I didn’t go shopping. In fact, not being able to go shopping for so […]
Darwin200: wind energy!
The perspective of Jasper and Lorimer on wind energy around the British Isles is told in this video: A project to explore sustainable wind power
Outdoor Daily III
You may well ask … It’s one of my favourite oak trees on my walks, sun shining through branches, seen through a shard of cobalt blue ‘night soil’ glass washed out of the abandoned daffodil […]
Outdoor Daily III
Sometimes my daily walk in nature is spoilt by my mind not letting go. Thoughts are occupying it like wire wool: persistent and abrasive. It happens when I allow (perceived) urgency to take precedence over […]
Eerily beautiful: crack in the Brunt Ice Shelf – Drone Footage
Brunt I’ve Shelf has now calved: read more in the BAS press release.
Outdoor Daily III
This feels like full circle: lesser celandine is back in flower. Back in April, during the first lockdown I wrote about this bright little flower before…. …and we’re still in lockdown. It feels like a […]
Outdoor Daily III
Damp, windy, grey, then heavy rain… perhaps not the ideal day for Valentine’s in lockdown, when the only legal way to be together is outdoors moving along at a 2 m distance? I’m generally not […]
Outdoor Daily III
Cold weather rewards: I love those little towers of ice extruded from the soil during a mild frost. I say ‘extruded’ because they are all topped with a little crown of soil (or an acorn), […]
