JaneJul 1, 20181 minExperimental Textile ExhibitionI have been attending a part time textile course run by Justine Warner at The Lund Gallery In Easingwold. Next weekend we have a small ex...
GrahamJul 1, 20184 minAscentBy Chris Bonington Simon & Schuster £9.99 412pp Chris Bonington has, over the years, produced a variety of mountaineering books. Many of...
GrahamJul 1, 20182 minIssue 16 - On Common GroundThere was a time when the lord of the manor allowed his tenants the common right to use sections of his land. In the main this was open p...
JaneJul 1, 20181 minArt Club - ReinventionI thought about how politicians and governments reinvent themselves and their policies repeating and slightly changing ideas . I used Zi...
GrahamJun 11, 20185 minThe OgreBy Doug Scott Vertebrate £20 pp 178 The Ogre is a book of two halves. The first sixty pages give a concise and interesting account of ...
GrahamJun 11, 20182 minIssue 15 A Little Big HillIt is probably true to say that Abergavenny has two hills it can consider its own. The more prominent and therefore generally better know...
JaneMay 2, 20181 minArt Club - ObservationThe theme for art club was observation. I decided to make a piece of art responding to the fact that people are trapped in Syria whilst t...
GrahamMay 2, 20184 minKinder ScoutEd Douglas & John Beatty Vertebrate Publishing £19.95 182 pp It was one summer Saturday morning when Ed Douglas picked up his rucksack,...
GrahamMay 2, 20182 minIssue 14 - On and Offa Dyke part 2There has been some discussion within hill-bagging circles recently, around the confusion caused by hills bearing the same name. The numb...
GrahamApr 2, 20184 minIssue 13 - Those Two ImpostersI have already mentioned in an earlier Bagmag that to counter a rather depressing prognosis of my future life span, I had set myself a hi...
GrahamApr 2, 20184 minClimbers’ Club Guide to West Country Vol 2Paul Harrison & David Hope. Vertebrate Publishing £27.50 422pp When I started climbing over sixty years ago, the deprivations of the re...
JaneMar 11, 20181 minArt Club - Artists' BooksInspired by Louise Bourgeois's work I created a cloth book. The composition of each page was inspired by photogtraphs of edges of doors a...
JaneMar 4, 20181 minJapanese BoroInspired by the traditional Japanese mending technique called Boro; I applied simple sticthing to scraps of denim fabric taken from old p...
GrahamMar 1, 20184 minIssue 12 - TRAVELS WITH A PONY or More Land CrossingsThe owners of flat hats and even flatter vowels tend to think there’s nowt much in the way of hills south of Manchester and when it comes...
JaneJan 28, 20181 minArt Club Our eARThI created another piece on the theme of climate change inspired by google images of oil spills in seas and waterways. I hand dyed paper w...
GrahamJan 28, 20184 minThe Scottish Bothy BibleBy Geoff Allen Wild Things Publishing £16.99 304pp Towards the very end of the seventies, I came across a spiral bound, cardboard cover...
GrahamJan 28, 20183 minIssue 11 - A Day Out in MiniatureThere was a time when I knew the ins and outs of the Highland Lines pretty well. If, for example, you base yourself at Fort William, you ...
GrahamJan 5, 20184 minNo Map Could Show ThemBy Helen Mort Chatto & Windus £10.00 70pp Much of this collection of poems by Helen Mort is anchored (or perhaps belayed would be a mor...
GrahamDec 29, 20174 minIssue 10 Some County TopsThere is no doubt that there is a certain type of person who likes making lists or rather making lists that can, satisfactorily, be ticke...
GrahamDec 5, 20173 minIssue 9 Two For The Price Of ThreeA little to the north and east of the market town of Skipton lie three tops, Cracoe Fell, Thorpe Fell Top and Sharp Haw. Of the three the...
