All Categories - Notes from the North
July 18, 2022 ·
It’s the middle of July and I’m spending my first summer for many many years in the south of...
May 14, 2022 ·
This is a post about the project to buy and renovate the house of the Cumbrian poet Norman...
April 10, 2021 ·
A lot of snow and cold winds this week. An attempted hike ended in painfully numb cheeks and a ...
March 24, 2021 ·
The following is a few comments on Blackpool’s excellent performance in last night’s 3-1 home win...
March 10, 2021 ·
Sunshine, rain, and unseasonably warm temperatures have pushed winter from the minds of those in...
February 3, 2021 ·
I'm walking home, striding in my docs on a thin dusting of snow, and warm in my fake fur hat. I...
January 10, 2021
I’ve been on the phone off and on for hours trying to sort some boring bureaucratic mess. In the...
December 1, 2020 ·
As the sun rose on our final week in this miraculous place, I realise how lucky we’ve been. The...
November 6, 2020
We were struggling to work in the city—perhaps it’s the fact that suddenly everyone is working...
October 25, 2020
Autumn winds means fierce weather and moody skies. The sea is turquoise and flecked with white,...
October 15, 2020
The following text consists of some descriptions and observations from a hiking route through the...
October 2, 2020 ·
When I plan an expedition or hike I sometimes spend hours, weeks or even months planning and...
September 24, 2020
Thursday 24th September. The first northern lights this side of summer. My fingers ache and...
September 8, 2020 ·
The following text describes something of a route up the mountain of Kistufell, one of the...
March 23, 2020
Up and up through a cranny in the cliff face, funnelled through a notch and hemmed in by dry...
March 20, 2020
This is clearly a difficult time in every regard, and I’m sure you’ll all be experiencing some...
February 12, 2020
Crows caw ominously. One huge shifting mass, they spiral upward together in a swirling blackness,...
December 13, 2019
[Forgive what will of course be only a slightly frazzled snapshot of the broader picture--I'm so...
January 31, 2019
White snow the colour of a bird’s egg, a pure evening hue of pale blue. Parallel strips of cloud,...
Sometimes I have this need to feel poetry in me, to have some sort of lyricism for the world – to...