The weather was in our favour. We set off in a light drizzle, which you might think is a bad thing, but it felt very welcome after the searing heat of the last two weeks. Clouds were teasing the tops of the fells all around us, concealing, revealing, and adding a drama to a landscape coming… Read More
Ah, so it’s not just about a single tree! A child’s comment to us today – ‘I thought it would be just about a tree, but it was much funner,’ kind of sums up, in a nine-year-old way, what has been going on over the last few weeks on our days with schools. We’ve… Read More
The Little Asby Hawthorn spends most of its time undisturbed by humans, a solitary figure beneath a wide open sky. Today it had some visitors … Read More
Did you know that the Anglo Saxons had 471 different words for trees and woods? Or that the 1068 Domesday survey revealed that 15% of England was wooded (today it’s just 14% in the whole of the UK)? These two facts were shared by the Woodland Trust’s Matt Larsen-Daw at the recent Charter Champion day in… Read More
The Long View cameras range from traditional large format to quirky underwater compacts. Read More
We drove in. The lake was grey. The screes grey, the sky grey. Rain. Wind whipping the water into spray. All grey and bracken brown. Read More
Even a bare hawthorn can roar in winter wind. Read More
Choosing the right gear for a long walk, and a considerable amount of time standing or sitting still, is essential for our days out. Read More
Tree time arches over the short terms of prime ministers. It stretches beyond a family’s generation. And in terms of woodlands and forests, tree time spans centuries. Read More
THE LONG VIEW