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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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Ronald Turnbull
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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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Ronald Turnbull
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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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Ronald Turnbull
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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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Ronald Turnbull
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August 2025
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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Ronald Turnbull
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The mistakes of others
It’s good to learn from your mistakes. It’s even better to learn from other people’s ones. (Warren Buffet) [1500 words, 6 mins
Aug 20
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Ronald Turnbull
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Exit Pursued by Bear
Timon of Athens and Tim of Alaska: different ways of dying in the wilderness [1500 words 6 mins
Aug 13
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Ronald Turnbull
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Keats climbs Ben Nevis
John Keats climbed Ben Nevis on 2nd August 1818, and wrote not one but two poems about it. Both of the poems are a bit silly. [1400 words, 5 mins
Aug 5
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Ronald Turnbull
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July 2025
Emily Bronte and the Bog Burst of 1824
A near-death experience for two little girls may have helped inspire 'Wuthering Heights'. [1800 words 7 mins
Jul 30
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Ronald Turnbull
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A boulder and a boulderer
Brought out of the mountains by a glacier to become the only 17b boulder-climb in southern England [short story 1500 words 6 mins
Jul 23
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Ronald Turnbull
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Gertrude Bell and the Finsteraarhorn
Diplomat, spy, photographer, activist, archeologist: oh, and she also put up a few interesting routes in the Alps. [2400 words, 10 mins
Jul 16
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Ronald Turnbull
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The Salt Path and author contract 'warranties'
I've signed more than two dozen author contracts. The clauses about untrue and harmful statements are fearsome.
Jul 9
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Ronald Turnbull
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