Garden of Lights

I often have an early start, either for work /or some journey, so walking through empty and darkened spaces is a familiar pleasure. The walk to Ormskirk station through Coronation Park, often looks a bit like this

- Ormskirk’s low-angled roofscape beneath a dawn sky.

It is possible to get through Ormskirk and on to the [...]

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Wine of All Things: The Lakes to Rowington

Two months after completing the last section, I got back to The Lakes Station, south of Birmingham, ready to continue. In my pack: some oat bars, the new camera, selected poems of Thomas Traherne, and two china mugs purchased in a desperate hurry in the centre of Birmingham.

I was on the Midland Link, an [...]

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Seeing the invisible – platform independent

I was intrigued by a message on Twitter mentioning ‘Location based/locative storytelling via your GPS device’ -  imagining some gizmo that would record and upload narrative about places from out in the field, a technoshaman’s dictaphone.

Looking at the StoryTraveller website, I discovered something slightly different: ‘Yes it is a GPS that shows you the way, [...]

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Garden of the Gods

I wrote yesterday that I was resolved to do more local exploring. As today involved staying in, waiting for a new washing machine to be delivered (the previous Indesit having expired after a paltry six years of service) I was confined, literally, to my own backyard. Now we’re not keen gardeners, more accidental owners of [...]

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Return to Go: Formby Sands

I tend to operate as a sleep camel, waking early during the week and then having marathon sleeps at the weekend, which collapse into deferred dreams. Recently, some of these have involved us living in versions of my parents’ house and this morning I was in the back garden, noticing new desire paths cutting through [...]

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