🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

I was brushing the roots of some wood avens today (as you do) when I looked down at the surface I was working on and realised how much these elderflower flowers that had blown in from somewhere looked like tiny stars. #woodavens #roots #elderflowers #nature #medicinalplants

One of my favourite places in all of London. I like to think that this beautiful bat box will be full of tiny pipistrelle bats in about a month’s time. #nature #london #urbannature #bats #pippistelles #batboxes

My sister just sent me (& all our siblings) a roll of photos my father took of the Irish writer Seán Ó Faoláin. I then found the Atlantic issue from 1964 which used his photo. He had such a way of seeing & being. I miss him. #fathers #photography #seanofaolain #Ireland #writers

In my garden right now trying not to think of a million things that are currently making me feel sad & angry while enjoying the clove-sweet smell of these pinks, which just might be my favourite scent of all time. #dianthus #pinks #carnations #sweetwilliam #scentofspring

This morning, looking back, as I left the house. Something timeless grabbed me. #gingercats #pumpkin #daughters #mothers #thedomestic

"...in this Pocock reminds us of Donna Haraway: we assume the disorder to learn to continue with the problem of living and dying together on a wounded earth, opening ourselves up and generating a new type of thinking that will allow us to build more liveable futures." 👇👇👇

Incredibly touched to be mentioned here with such empathy by Kate Blincoe - Country diary: My fear is that one year the swifts will not return | Birds | The Guardian Country diary: My fear is that one year the swifts will not return theguardian.com/environment/20…

MAY BOOK OFFER! FABULA is our first issue dedicated to fiction and works of imagination. To introduce the book we republish its afterword and a dark folk story by Luke Winter in our new Substack edition, set in an uncertain future. darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/fabula

Whilst proper regulatory action is a good start, I just don’t see how this record fine from Ofwat translates into boots on the ground action to fix our broken water infrastructure. What we need in simple terms is: 1. Fines like this to fund a team on *every* river in the

On a break during duty service at Snaresbrook Crown Court. Won’t say anything except, ‘Will you look at this tree!’ #snaresbrook #snaresbrookcrowncourt #trees #urbanspaces

WHERE DOES THE NIGHT START? Robert Sherman explores the legal debate at the heart of the Right to Roam campaign in light of their recent victory for Dartmoor campers: does sleep count as ‘recreation’? darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/where-does-t…

👇👇👇 This is such a simple act. These birds really need our help.

Thrilled that one of my Life Writing students Short Courses at University of the Arts London has just been published in The Rumpus The piece began its life in one of my classes. There are few better feelings than seeing work you love written by serious writers getting out there. therumpus.net/2025/05/27/voi…

I loved this book. So much has been written about wolves in North America, but the packs that roam Central Europe were new to me. Adam Weymouth writes beautifully about these complex creatures & their relationship to humans. A wonderful read. #nonfiction #adamweymouth #wolves

I think about Townes Van Zandt's joke when he says he is going to play 'a medley of my hit' at least several times a week. 'Pancho and Lefty' is truly one of the greatest songs ever written. youtube.com/watch?v=zprRZ2… #townesvanzandt #panchoandlefty #heartwornhighways