GrahamApr 30, 20192 minIssue 26 - The Early BirdThe particular worm on offer is the Marilyn that, because of its relative isolation, doesn’t easily combine with others of that ilk to ma...
JaneApr 30, 20191 minArt Club - Take A WalkI took a walk around the neighbourhood, collecting pieces of rubbish I found on my way. I created a small fold out map of my journey
JaneApr 1, 20191 minMA - A Sense of PlaceMy exploration of the farm also includes its current social, political and economic context. I am concentrating on the farm's sustainable...
GrahamApr 1, 20193 minIssue 25 - Hail Storm HillYou can’t say you weren’t warned. If you insist on visiting this part of the world in the middle of March, both Hail Storm and its neighb...
JaneMar 2, 20191 minMA A Sense of PlaceI have been exploring the history of the farm and how to share these glimpses of history. The farm has been inhabited by Romans and monks...
GrahamMar 2, 20192 minIssue 24 YET ANOTHER WASTE LANDWhatever Tom Eliot might have believed about April, it is hard to deny that February offers little in the way of the milk of human kindne...
JaneFeb 4, 20191 minMA - A Sense of PlaceI have been looking how the farm carries out sustainable farming practices to support local wildlife in particular creating optimal nesti...
GrahamFeb 4, 20194 minIssue 23 Birth of a BaggerThroughout my early walking and climbing days I visited the summits of a number of, depending on your viewpoint, mountains or hills. Not ...
JaneJan 2, 20191 minMA - A Sense of PlaceI am looking at the current use of the farm by looking at maps of the farm. I am interested in the field shapes and and experimenting wi...
GrahamJan 2, 20193 minIssue 22 Winter-QuartersOne of the somewhat dubious advantages of a classical education is the ability to render sentences like, Caesar, having given the Helveti...
GrahamDec 3, 20184 minIssue 21 DONE AND DUSTEDSir Hugh Munro probably didn’t realise what he had started when, in 1981, he submitted his Tables of the 3000-feet Mountains of Scotland ...
JaneNov 30, 20181 minMA - A Sense of PlaceMy MA project involves creating a Sense of a Place. I am beginning to create work based on a small tenant farm in North Yorkshire. This c...
JaneOct 29, 20181 minArt Club - Inspiration 2We decided to repeat the idea of giving each other two artists for inspiration. I was given Maxine Sutton a textile artist who uses bold ...
GrahamOct 29, 20183 minIssue 20 The Three Peaks of YorkshireAs any fule kno Yorkshire has three peaks. They are Pen y Ghent, Ingleborough and Whernside and they are universally known as THE THREE P...
JaneOct 3, 20181 minArt Club Inspiration 1This time each member chose two artists for another member of the art club to use as inspiration. My two artists were Nigerian textile ar...
GrahamOct 3, 20183 minIssue 19 The Eildon HillsThe weather enjoyed during the summer of 2018 had many advantages but there was one particular boon was soon apparent to this bagger of m...
GrahamSep 4, 20183 minIssue 18 - ON AND OFFA DYKE (Part 3)The third and most southerly section of Offa’s Dyke provides Marilyn Man with a solitary, but nevertheless significant, tick. Point 703, ...
GrahamSep 4, 20183 minThe Living MountainBy Nan Shepherd Canongate Books £8.99 114pp Nan Shepherd wrote The Living Mountain at the latter end of the Second World War. Perhaps w...
GrahamAug 13, 20184 minTidesby Nick Bullock Vertebrate Publishing £24 246pp In 2012 Nick Bullock produced his first book “Echoes”. On page one he has a steady job w...
GrahamAug 13, 20183 minIssue 17 PAENMEANACHThe area of mountainous land on either side of the A380 between Glenfinnon and Mallaig is more often passed in the rush for a ferry than ...