Typing student feedback, and “the ‘gram” (Instagram) got auto-corrected to “the ‘grim”, and I’m not entirely sure that’s actually wrong.
Could an afternoon in the woods at the rewilded Knepp Estate rewild my child?
My youngest and I went along to find out — and found ourselves fascinated by barn owl pellets…
I don’t need a forest bathing ticket or expensive gear to sit and eat a cheese and pickle sandwich on a fallen tree trunk. I don’t need an end point, a map or a phone.
Dal Kular in Wild Service, edited by Nick Hayes 📚
When a man begins to turn the earth he finds that spring is not born in the branches of the trees, but down in the cold and dark and damp. Before the first mild morning had stimulated birds to sing, some influence had been felt down here.
— A Countryman’s Spring Notebook by Adrian Bell 📚
Finally, the shot I was destined to take. A wild adder, shot by @adders.
Having one of those moments when you’re happily scanning your way through some old negatives of your parents', and it slowly dawns on you that this set was shot…
…on a nudist beach.
When going through my late parents' negatives, I found a small number of medium format negs I don’t have the capacity to scan myself. I sent off a trial film to a professional scanning outfit as a test, and the results are quite something…
Started reading: A Countryman’s Spring Notebook by Adrian Bell 📚
These little hardback editions from Simply Foxed are just gorgeous.
Do electric vehicles use more water than petrol cars?
As ever, it’s not just about switching to EVs - it’s about the source of the electricity you use.
Started reading: Wild Service by Nick Hayes 📚
Started reading: Light Rains Sometimes Fall by Lev Parikian 📚
Om Malik with the headline of the day there.
We need to collapse context collapse in our online communities.
Good fences and all that…
The Rail Riders Club was a marketing thing British Rail did back in the 1980s, before it was broken up and privatised. These images are from a meet they held in Edinburgh, back in the late 80s.
Second update from the Ghost team building out ActivityPub support: Building ActivityPub: Day 1
Started reading: Finding Hildasay by Christian Lewis 📚