Water-pepper, Persicaria hydropiper
Water-pepper, Persicaria hydropiper, is a bitter tasting map-maker. It is an inconspicuous annual plant, but it is useful to natural navigators. It grows up to…
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Online Course Update
I’ve just uploaded a post-match analysis of a natural navigation walk in Hampshire to the online course. I’ve included the section where it went wrong…
Wild and Fruity Map
It’s that time of year, the hedges and forest floors and bursting into fruit. I have written a guest blog for the Idler Magazine all…
Cross Hatch Wave Pattern
This is a video for readers of the book How to Read Water. Notice how a cross-hatch pattern forms where the waves meet on this…
The Fine Art of Looking at Ugly Walls
Walls that start life looking the same do not stay that way for long. The sun hits exposed south-facing walls hard in the middle of…
New Online Course is NOW LIVE!
After months of hard work, the new Beginner’s Guide to Natural Navigation online course has just launched! It is a very visual course, based on…
10th Anniversary Edition of The Natural Navigator
I’m delighted to announce that there is now a new edition of The Natural Navigator in the UK. The 10th Anniversary edition has a new…
Clues Above Brighton Pier
Have a good look at the picture above. I took it during a night walk along the Brighton seafront. If I was planning to set…
How to Smell Rain
A wonderful guest article today by Milo Carnegie Mee. Of the plethora of smells that greet our noses when we are outdoors, the redolence of…