70 - Blue sky. Empty beach. Low tide.
It's past midday on a late May day in Suffolk and the sun is pouring down onto a calm sea. It's shining, for the first time this year, with that summer strength that makes you stop, to really take in ...
5 Jun 202136min
Time beside a stream in the Welsh hills
A fair April day has dawned up in the hills above the village of Kerry. Nothing's come or gone yet along the road beside the stream. Nature's curfew means its dew tinted tarmac must stay empty for a l...
29 Mai 202151min
Birdsong in rain from inside the derelict chapel at Abney Park nature reserve
There's a special feeling that comes with the sound of falling rain. With a sky still free of jet planes, this is how the day unfolds within the secret space of the derelict chapel of Abney Park. It i...
22 Mai 202142min
May rain after daybreak
It must have broken through a mist of spring rain when it came, the dawn, the first light of day. It would have come into a watery sky too, one busy with clouds, but full of blossoming spring and stil...
15 Mai 202142min
Listening to the longshore drift
There's a point along the promenade at Bexhill-on-Sea where the pull of the crashing waves outweighs the ice cream hubbub underneath the pavilion. Where no matter your age, you'll find yourself leap f...
8 Mai 202132min
65 Songs from the churchyard of St Mary’s Gilston
The parish church of St Mary, Gilston in Hertfordshire dates from the 13th century. It is set within wide open farmland north of Harlow. It's one of only a handful of buildings, surrounded on all side...
1 Mai 202150min
Waiting for skylarks at the Rye Harbour nature reserve
If I sit here, very still, so as not to scare the water birds, might they come back? I hope so. They've wheeled away again, like they do. It's their drifting altitudinous song that I most want to hear...
24 Apr 202123min
Taking forty winks at the seaside - Norman's Bay, East Sussex (sleep safe)
The perfect spot for a snooze on a windy beach is the leeside of a shingle berm. Sheltered from the onshore breeze, you can't see over to the sea, but you can hear it, with all its wholesome sound. Yo...
17 Apr 202128min
