Is this Grass Blue or Green?
My thanks to Peter Gibbs for another fascinating email. You can see our exchange below. If you have your own different interpretation, do please get in touch. ——-…
Tag: extraordinary
Reindeer Lichen and Wild Feelings
I live in the chalk hills of the South Downs. On my daily walks over these hills I am always greeted by familiar alkaline-loving flora.…
Natural Navigation with the Tuareg in the Libyan Sahara
The following article by Tristan Gooley was published in Navigation News in March 2010. My research to date has failed to uncover another soul who…
New Podcast Interview and Vehicle Tracks on Grass
I recently ran a course for Leanne Spencer of Bodyshot Performance. At the end of the course we did an interview for her podcast. You…
Stick Charts at the Royal Academy
Last night I was invited by the very nice people at Tourism New Zealand to the opening of Oceania, a wonderful exhibition at the Royal…
Samuel Pepys and his Moon Compass
From an entry in Samuel Pepys’ diary on Saturday 19th August 1665: So to Stanes and there by this time it was dark night, and…
The Pebbles on the Beach
Thank you to everyone who tuned in to listen to me eulogise Clarence Ellis’ book, The Pebbles on the Beach, on the Today programme on…
Fountain Rainbow
If you look closely at the partial rainbow created between the fountain and Chinese Pagoda in Victoria Park, London, you might notice that there is…
Spectator Reviews Wild Signs
The Spectator have just reviewed Wild Signs and Star Paths: “It’s a thoughtful, lyrical book about the hidden connections between flora and fauna, the landscape…
A Painting Puzzle
My thanks to Sebastien from Leipzig, Germany, for sending in this photo of a painting in the Museum of Communism in Prague. Have a good…
The Greeting Map
I have just returned from an ‘artists’ symposium’ called Liquidscapes, where I gave a talk on How to Read Water. Thank you to everyone who…
Camberwell Beauty
What price to see a butterfly I’ve never seen before? I found this one in the garden yesterday and believe it is the rare migrant,…
The Big Issue Book Review
Lovely review just out in The Big Issue: “What’s wonderful about this book is not just that it is full of helpful instructions for decoding…
Hay Festival 2018
A big, big thanks to everyone – almost one thousand of you! – who came to my events at Hay Festival on Thursday. The main…
Navigation Naturelle
Congratulations to Alban Cambe on the publication of his French book on natural navigation – “Navigation Naturelle’. Regular readers may recognise the name – Alban…
Wild Signs has arrived!
I have a copy of Wild Signs and Star Paths in my hands! This is not my first book, but this moment still stirs. It…
A Shadow Stick in the Bahamas
This just in from Dick Forte in the Bahamas… Tristan, Here is a Gooley-inspired sun dial in the southern Bahamas, just inside the tropics, 74…
Eric Ravilious and the Duck’s Bottom Effect
The English artist, Eric Ravilious (1903 -1942), is loved by many of us who tramp the same chalky hills of the South Downs that he…
The Colour of Mud as a Compass
Readers of my books or this blog will be well aware by now that we should expect to find more puddles on the shaded southern…
Proof Arrived, Contents Pages Snapped
The proof of ‘Wild Signs and Star Paths’ has just been delivered. I’m more than a little excitable – no coffee required this morning. If…
Bronze Age Burial Clues and Puzzle
On the weekend we went for a walk through the last of the snow in the South Downs. We reached a line of Bronze Age…