The Proof is in my Hands!
Only a couple of months until How to Read a Tree is born… Getting exciting now! Yesterday I spent a very enjoyable afternoon investigating trees…
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New Book US Cover Reveal
I’m delighted and excited to reveal the North American cover of my new book, The Secret World of Weather. It is out on April 8th…
The Nature Instinct
The Nature Instinct has been published in the US! “A captivating guide to finding one’s way in the wild.” —The Wall Street Journal “An imperative…
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…
New Event, Advance Notice – Hay Festival
New Event, advance notice: An illustrated talk on Wild Signs and Star Paths at Hay Festival, Thursday May 31 at 5.30pm More info: https://www.hayfestival.com/p-13987-ristan-ooley.aspx UPDATE:…
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…
Men, Women, Navigation and Radio 4
The latest issue of Navigation News (The magazine of the Royal Institute of Navigation) contains an opinion piece I wrote on two contentious subjects. I’ve…
Family Camping in Extremis
Each year we travel with 3 other families to the southwest coast of the Isle of Wight for some traditional British camping. This is definitely…
Flutes, Forces, Fires and Force 7s
I was interviewed by Susan Gray on behalf of the Ramblers yesterday. We chatted over tea, blasts of icy December air and then some more…
Pillar to Post
It has been quite a restless few days. Last Saturday I spent the morning in London as a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Excess Baggage.…
Country Tracks BBC1
Welcome to those of you who have found your way here, on the trail from BBC1’s Country Tracks. (For those of you who haven’t, a…
Passing through Sebha
The news that rebel forces are pushing south in Libya, has taken me back to the short time I spent in Sebha in February and…
Wardian Cases and Traveller’s Palms
Last week set a new record for restlessness… Thanks to all who came for the walk around the Long Man from Wilmington on Saturday afternoon…
Underground Navigation
I am spending a lot of time at the moment helping the BBC with a new series and have spent the last few days in…
Radio Parallax
A big thanks to Douglas Everett of California’s Radio Parallax for having me on his show. Radio Parallax is a beacon for all those who…
Technology and Nature Debate
Full marks to Radio 4’s Today programme for allowing even a few minutes’ discussion of the role of technology in our appreciation and understanding of…
Cutting Edges and Strange Worlds
There are many things I like to claim that natural navigation is: fascinating, challenging, eclectic, addictive, unusual, diverse and diverting, but not… cutting edge. Some…
Tongues of Ice
I’m just back from six days in Cairngorms in the Scottish Highlands. In the foreground of the first picture you can probably make out some…
Sweet Times on Sugar Loaf Mountain
For the love of God, spare us from any more blog titles like that, you are thinking. But persevere, there is a point to it.…
