The Coleridge School of Poetry Writing
I’ve just finished my second reading of Richard Holmes’ scintillating two-book biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (I’m a fan of both Holmes’ and Coleridge’s writing,…
I’ve just finished my second reading of Richard Holmes’ scintillating two-book biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (I’m a fan of both Holmes’ and Coleridge’s writing,…
A guest blog by John Hudson FRGS, the UK military’s Chief Survival Instructor. Direction finding in the military these days uses lots of technology, but…
If we look closely at ice we will often find patterns and patterns in nature always have meaning. In the photo above there is an…
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In winter there are lots of new clues formed by the snow, including the strips of snow we find on the windward side of trees.…
We say we are using a ‘frost compass’ when we find direction by looking at frost patterns. We can navigate using the sun, because it…
The temperature often rises just before it snows, but why? When it is very cold in winter, we instinctively feel that snow is likely. It…
This is the UK cover of my latest book, How to Read a Tree. Hope you like it. It can be pre-ordered through the usual…
An old investigation into dowsing, also known as ‘water divining’. Let’s us start with an interesting extract on the subject of dowsing, or water-divining, from…