The snail is a compact design combining organism and habitat. The snail is incredibly powerful, so powerful that it carries its house wherever it goes.
Vincent Okay Nwachukwu
Being a Camping Person
Land’s End to John O’Groats
The sea! The sea!
The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place
Rachel Carson
Fell at Trafalgar
Proof of Concept
T-11 hours and holding
• Weather and engineering briefings
• Flight crew equipment late stow
T-11 hours and counting
• Activate the orbiter’s fuel cells
• Clear the blast danger area of all nonessential personnel
NASA Mission Countdown
The Day of Enervation and Doubt
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time
Leonard Bernstein
Anglesey Coastal Path
5th – 17th September 2022
John O’Groats
A fisherman’s paradise
Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. – Ted Hughes
A short walk to a Proclaimers gig
I would walk five hundred miles. / And I would walk five hundred more… – The Proclaimers, ‘I’m Gonna Be’
In which we tick off an item from the Bucket List
Bradan à linne fiadh à frìth craobh à coille [Salmon from the pool, deer from the moor, tree from the wood] – from ‘Hymns to a Young Demon’, by Aonghas MacNeacail
We had spent a great amount of yesterday evening eliminating the midges from inside our tent: there had been huge swarming clouds of them, and if we opened the zips even a crack they would be unerringly inside. We woke to the same clouds of biting insects trapped between the tent inner and the flysheet.
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Walking The Landscape 