The tree looked lonely, growing from the base of a crag high above the Lakeland town of Ambleside...

What is it about badgers? I know I am supposed to love the animals and offer them protection and space. Yet somehow...

The other day I received my chainsaw certification. I am now licensed to chop. Yet somehow, I feel uncomfortable.

What is it about dry-stone walls? They are all around me, a defining feature of where I live, the English Lake District...

Fungi are more than simple, fascinating finds. They are a window into how an ecosystem is changing.

Whenever I climb the Lake District’s Great Gable (899 metres) [i] , I usually have whisky on my mind. This time it was climate change...

Modern Haweswater Whenever I visit Haweswater, I admit to feeling depressed. Despite its evident beauty and the fact it is so remote,...

Trees relax me What is it about trees? For some reason they relax me, especially in this month of May. It is a month when the weather is...

Week 12 Once again this is a long one, so please find somewhere quiet to read and ponder. Climate change and the future of mankind is no...

Week 10 Once again this is a long one, so please grab a cuppa if you can. You will need somewhere quiet and thoughtful to read it and do...

Week 8 Once again this is a long one, albeit shorter than others I have written, so I have not divided it into two portions. However, you...

Week 6 Once again this is a long one, so please be prepared, as the topic is serious. I have broken the text halfway, so that you can...

Week 4 This is a long one, so please be prepared, as the topic is serious. I have broken the text halfway, so that you can recharge your...

Week 2 Introduction There are few better ways of seeing the effects of climate change than standing atop a Lake District mountain. I had...

Week 53 It is fitting that I write this final blog of the year as another storm assaults Lakeland[i]. This time it is Storm Gerrit. There...

Week 52 I have been worrying about the saplings I have transplanted and am astonished by the number I have seen. I keep finding them,...

Week 51 For many years I have found that the sounds of Nature relax me. I even have a recording of a bubbling mountain stream to play at...

Week 50 I wish climate change could decide what it wants to be. One moment there is snow, the next high wind, then flooding, followed by...

Week 49 I hope I have not done the wrong thing. I have been dithering for several weeks as to whether I should transplant some trees from...

Week 48 The time of year has now arrived to think about moving vegetation, trees especially. My land was once ancient woodland, and no...