Mistle thrush sings amongst wind hushing conifers
The air above Broxbourne Wood is moving steadily, pushed along by an early April wind. It's catching the tops of the tall brush-like conifers abundant in this part of the wood. They're all about, and ...
10 Apr 202128min
A city at low tide (sleep safe)
It is said that cities never sleep, but from inside north east London's Abney Park nature reserve, the silken hum tells a different story. It's the early hours of Christmas Day 2020. The park has long...
3 Apr 202150min
Soundscenes of spring from the Derbyshire hills
Nestled between high gritstone walls, just off a single track lane about 1000 feet up in the Derbyshire hills, there's an old farmhouse with a chicken coop. Hidden under tall trees it has a panoramic ...
27 Mar 202146min
A fallen tree on Galley Hill
It was, from a bridleway in rural Essex, the long slanted beam that first attracted us over for a better look. A fallen tree, perpendicular to the rest, lying half in and half out of a patch of woodla...
20 Mar 202131min
Suffolk Wood (part 7) 2am - counting the chirps of a dark bush cricket (sleep safe)
When the bell of St Mary's strikes 2am, and the world has dissolved into shadows and echoes of far away things, there's a solace to be found in counting the chirps of a dark bush cricket. When all tha...
13 Mar 20211h 1min
Seaside brutalism - at the Port of Felixstowe
On the beach, sat within wetting distance of the water's edge, there's a point where the noise from the container port begins to meld in with the shingle soft washing to and fro of the waves. Here, ab...
6 Mar 202130min
56 The whispering trees of Bayford Wood
It was our first visit to Bayford Wood. A country walk, on a bright July day which was not quite as warm as it should be. A walk under an undecided sky, from time-to-time enhanced with inexplicable fl...
27 Feb 202146min
Light rain beside the lane near Sandy
It's all woods and rolling fields in rural Bedfordshire. Good for long walks under wide skies. A chance to get away from it all. On a wet February day, after splashing along muddy lanes and mud slidin...
20 Feb 202151min
