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Arthur – the first month

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2025-05-12 10:55:30

Arthur’s first month Poet-in-residence Damaris West takes on a new four-footed companion After my Italian rescue dog Galileo (mostly cocker spaniel) died of dilated cardiomyopathy, I vowed I would never have another dog. For one thing I’d be making myself vulnerable to a repeat of the tragedy. For another, a physical disability interferes with my ability to

Damaris West

Why Didn’t You Fly

2025-02-23 22:37:06

Why didn’t you fly, my boyfriend replied (with a crying face emoji). It was a Thursday evening in late February, and I’d messaged to say I was already feeling sleepy despite having another train journey – of three hours – to embark on once I arrived by Eurostar in Paris. He asked me this before,

Chantal Lyons

The wild geese visiting Scotland

2024-12-17 18:16:46

Writer-in-residence Damaris West delights in skeins of geese in poetry and prose.

Damaris West

A Dearth of Much-Loved Butterflies

2024-11-15 11:30:00

Every natural historian must have noticed that over this past summer in the UK there have been much reduced numbers of our normally commonest butterflies: peacocks, red admirals, small tortoiseshells, painted ladies. We’re told this was due to the wet, cold, windy spring, although the general decline in most species is a long-term trend, related

Damaris West

Hope you like the new me

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2023-12-29 17:21:13

Poet-in-residence Shani Cadwallender provides an introductory text to the new year.

Shani Cadwallender

Walking Around the Internet

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2023-12-04 16:24:18

Walking around the Internet with Amelia Hodsdon our writer-in-residence

Amelia Hodsdon

How to walk around an art gallery

2023-08-02 17:43:30

You might think there’s only one right way to walk around an art gallery. Hell, no. There are as many ways to walk around an art gallery as there are artists and people going to see those artists’ works in art galleries. Well, nearly.

Cheryl Markosky

A riverside walk along the Thames Path

2023-07-25 15:03:52

It’s a bit of a mash-up, but somehow it seems to work.  You can get down and dirty with mud, bushes and wetlands one minute. And then the next, admire opulent Georgian houses, shiny newbuilds and quirky eateries on this Fulham to Chiswick section of the Thames Path. The Thames Path was launched in 1996

Cheryl Markosky

Walk away, walk away, walk away, we gotta move on to a better day

2023-05-04 17:41:29

73,866 lyrics. 103 artists. 50 albums. There’s no shortage of songs with “walk away” imbedded in the melody, concealed in the cadence. So many ways crooners beat rhythms to withdraw, abandon, forsake, maroon, shuck off, disown. Go on the run. Applaud a lucky break. Is walking away as simple as strolling round the corner, or

Cheryl Markosky

Why you should walk barefoot on a Caribbean beach: an acrostic wonder of wanders

2023-04-16 14:34:34

Why you should walk barefoot on a Caribbean beach: an acrostic wonder of wanders Walk barefoot on Pinneys Beach, walk barefoot on the longest beach on the island of Nevis, a four-mile blanket edge stitched with silken sand, loose strands of froth running between your toes. Avoid the track most taken, avoid the considerable conference

Cheryl Markosky

What it really feels like to be a person who doesn’t take a dog on a walk

2023-03-03 17:06:58

People in the country think I’m a serial killer, because I walk without a dog. It’s obvious I have bad intentions – and most probably, murder on my mind – in the absence of a furry companion trotting to heel. “Where’s your dog?” locals ask suspiciously.  Sometimes I say the dog’s been left behind, like

Cheryl Markosky

The Chalk Walk: the comfort of the familiar

2023-02-25 08:15:37

Like a cosy pair of slippers, a sauce-smudged recipe, or a beloved childhood book – Anne of Green Gables, in my case – a walk you’re at ease with can offer solace.  Anne Shirley, the free-spirited orphan in Anne of Green Gables transformed commonplace Barry’s Pond into the more appealing Lake of Shining Waters. And

Cheryl Markosky

From Mountain to Sea (part 2)

2022-08-23 13:40:00

In 2022 I have been commissioned to research a memorial to Covid for Aberdeenshire. My proposal is to develop a long-distance path from Mountain to Sea – taking Aberdeenshire’s motto literally. Based on Patrick Geddes’s Valley Section, I have been walking from Aberdeenshire’s highest point Ben MacDui in the Cairngorm mountains to the North Sea

Claudia Zeiske

From mountain to sea (part 1)

2022-07-19 12:42:00

I am walking from Mountain to Sea. Ben MacDui. First stop. Tourists are on the up.

Claudia Zeiske

Can you walk in the city?

2022-06-15 12:38:00

In the city. Can you walk in the city?

Claudia Zeiske

Moving house

2022-05-20 12:30:00

Not much walking this month. Just in the house.

Claudia Zeiske

Londronette Reminiscence Walk – A memory walk through London

2022-03-13 14:20:00

Where was the house, here?, no here?

Claudia Zeiske

Its Valentine’s Day

2022-02-14 14:24:00

I walk, like many days, around you, out of the garden.

Claudia Zeiske

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To walk: I’ll hae ta geng noo afore hit’s owre late.

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