A Land Despoiled, a short story for you. This one would be labelled 'Sci-Fi' or possibly 'Dystopian fiction', but I see it as the fruit of my imagination on passing through an area entirely dominated by the acid yellow flowers of oil seed rape. A Land Despoiled No one had been this far south for …
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For a few years now, my wife and I have accepted a challenge set by Country Walking Magazine to walk 1,000 miles in a year. The weekly milage required to achieve this is actually only 19.23, which is hardly a marathon. We both love walking, getting into the countryside and enjoying the freedom and serenity …
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Coastal Cornwall. I post these pictures of the natural beauty of our world to show how unique and irreplaceable it is. I’m simply presenting scenes I hope will please, and maybe inform, readers here.Links to items mentioned can be found at the end of the post.This one depicts part of the stunning coast of the …
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Subtitled ‘A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI, this weighty tome is actually surprisingly comprehensive. With 67 pages of Bibliography and an Index of 15 pages, the book is a veritable compendium of information, scholarly exploration, and informed opinion on the ways in which human societies have communicated over the …
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This series of posts depicts our beautiful world, hopefully encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from human carelessness and indifference. Please note the changes to this series, detailed below.Today’s photo is from the Forest of Dean. This track passes through a plantation of mixed evergreens and deciduous …
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Kilnsey Crag from Conistone This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo was taken in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, from a walk near Conistone, looking toward Kilnsey Cragg. The area is a beautiful …
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Our planet, the only one we have, has been around for 4.54 billion years (4,540,000,000,000 years). The very first proto-humans emerged around 2,000,000 years ago, and human civilisation (such as it is) has been around for under 6,000 years. Only for 0.00001% of the history of the Earth have modern humans been around. And look …
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This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo was taken during our holiday to celebrate our Wedding Anniversary, last year, on the lovely Greek island of Zakynthos. We’d walked from our comfortable hotel down …
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In this rolling series I’m looking at ‘odd’ things discovered when out walking. Some objects will be familiar to some readers, but many are likely to be unfamiliar to most. I’m presenting those that caught my attention through incongruity, idiosyncrasy, or simply their odd appearance.I came upon this on a walk from Rocky Valley in …
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This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo was taken along a rough road in the Forest of Dean. It serves English Forestry and their contractors when they’re felling, planting, or thinning the trees, …
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In this rolling series I’m looking at things seen when out walking. Some objects will be familiar to some readers, but many are likely to be unfamiliar to most. I’m presenting those that caught my attention through incongruity, idiosyncrasy, or simply their odd appearance.I came upon this birch leaf on an autumn walk through the …
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This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo was taken on a trip to Italy to celebrate our 30th Wedding Anniversary in 2018. We were staying in the small town of Stresa, on the …
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