Entries tagged "britain's wild places"

The Vale of Ewyas

2012-01-03

Happy New Year! I do not share everything in this blog, you will be pleased to know. Most matters familial and ablutionary are kept from these pages. So too are exact locations from time to time. It is not usually necessary to pinpoint the precise spot where a natural navigation technique revealed itself, or to give a 16 figure grid reference of the perch from which a photograph was taken. Sometimes, I must confess that I deliberately fail, as unostentatiously as possible, to reveal even a general location if I am keen not to encourage visitors…

Roll up, Roll up, Get Your Wild Places Here!

2008-12-29

A Christmas present that I hesitate to share, or even share the idea of... is 'Britain and Ireland's Best Wild Places' book. It does exactly what it says on the tin and in an appetising way.Try this paragraph for size:'Nothing grows in the shadow of the yews. They preside over empty, shady slopes of flint chalk and their own tindery flakings and droppings. Druids worshipped them and armourers harvested them, but nothing can live with them.'Before you sigh and mutter that this book will threaten the few remaining wild places, and that…