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Bacterial sludge: Stromatolites
A tale of two planet-destroying organisms [1700 words 7 mins
21 hrs ago
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Scotland's Mountains
Celebrating my 100th Substack post with a words-and-pictures gallery of my home hills
Oct 29
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Howard Somervell
He sat down to die on Everest in 1924, then came down again and painted it all in oils. If you happen to be in Grasmere, then grab this exhibition at…
Oct 22
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Gordale Blimey!
At the end of October, putting back the clock by a full 200 years, while walking from the limestone to Lancashire [1600 words 6 mins
Oct 15
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Is basalt an ocean bottom rock?
An Auvergne investigation along the Robert Louis Stevenson Trail [1900 words 7 mins
Oct 8
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The mistakes of others
Aug 20
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A short history of dying on the Eiger
Jan 31, 2024
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Jane Austen Walks
Jan 1
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The Salt Path and author contract 'warranties'
Jul 9
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John Milton and me
How hard will it be to maintain this Substack feed after becoming a partially sighted person? Poet John Milton managed it okay. [1400 words, 6 mins
Oct 1
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Islands in the Stream
Bog problems: continuing the encounter with Rannoch Moor [1500 words, 6 mins
Sep 24
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Poems in the MRI Machine
You have to stay very still, while looking at white plastic and listening to loud thumps. One way to do it is to see which poems you’ve managed to…
Sep 22
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Crossing bogs
Encounters with quagmires, morasses, bogs, fens, flows, sloughs and other soggy bits. [1600 words 7 mins
Sep 17
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Nurikabe, the helper of humanity
I am Nurikabe, helper of humanity. Helper, in particular, by means of my playfully enlarged scrotum. [900 words 5 mins
Sep 10
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England's Canyonlands
Nestled between the Chilterns and the chalk downs of Kent, it’s the walking area nobody talks about much [1100 words, 5 mins
Sep 3
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Is Lakeland a Bourgeois Piano?
WH Auden’s query from 1952 is a tricky one to answer. [1250 words 5 mins
Aug 27
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