Spring – the season of renewal – seems like a good time to renew The Other Side To Essex (aka TOSTE) so I thought I’d start with photographs of the blue and yellow profusion currently starring in my garden, starting with sunshine yellow daffodils, the double blooms bowing low. The pale colours […]
Love these Essex estuary photos by Taking a Leaf. . .
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Cycling the same route each day, Ruth Bradshaw maps changes in the trees of South London. It’s the turning time of year, time to turn back the clocks and turn on the central heating. All around me, as I cycle to work, the leaves on the trees are turning from green…
Been so busy starting the MA in Wild Writing I’ve neglected the blog. Will write a post soon, but in the meantime enjoy this autumnal piece from Taking a leaf . . .
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Helen Chambers walks along a vanishing path in Suffolk. Photos © Helen Chambers. The River Stour is a metallic ribbon, lying horizontal across the faded yellow of harvested fields; fields edged with wild oats and vivid late-blooming poppies. Passing the interestingly-named Crepping Hall and emerging at Stutton Ness (‘Ness’ in Suffolk and ‘Naze’…
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Today, I had to go home early from school as I was sick? (eek), after a while I started to feel better, got any school-work and homework completed and then I read some newspaper articles…about the launch of a report called ‘The State of Nature’. As I read, there was…
As a new member of Essex Wildlife Trust I was glad to take the opportunity of going to the Open Day at my most local nature reserve – Howlands Marsh – on 4th September. It covers 74 acres and the Trust website says it is one of the best surviving coastal grazing marshes in Essex. […]
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Stephen Rutt walks a familiar landscape and reflects on the meaning of a pair of wasp spiders and the power of ignorance. Photos © Stephen Rutt. The Suffolk coast is soft. Between the waves erasing chunks of shoreline shingle and sand, and the wet marshes that hang just back from…
By mid July my garden was full of purple splendour, and I took many photos, such as this Buddleia, to share the purple pleasure. Alas it’s taken a month to do the sharing, so I’ll keep the text brief and let the flowers flaunt their colourful finery. Starting with the deepest purple – the Clematis […]
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MA Wild Writing course director James Canton finds literary delights amongst the science and psychology in Vybarr Cregan-Reid’s book about running outside. [A version of this review appeared in the Times Literary Supplement on 8 July 2016]. Footnotes: How Running makes us Human Vybarr Cregan-Reid 352 pp. Ebury Press: London, May…
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