Rob from Malpas
@malpasfieldnotes.bsky.social
Yewberry Lane tree climbing champion 74-81, book on a small table in Malpas, reader, conservationist and slow walker
Tales from the riverbank
August 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Tales from the riverbank
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‘Walking, here, is a way of exploring artistic possibilities outside of gallery spaces...of conceiving art as a practice of connecting to the landscape.'
Annemarie Lopez joins a gathering of walkers, artists, scholars, and ecologists in Northern Greece www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/wild...
Annemarie Lopez joins a gathering of walkers, artists, scholars, and ecologists in Northern Greece www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/wild...
August 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
‘Walking, here, is a way of exploring artistic possibilities outside of gallery spaces...of conceiving art as a practice of connecting to the landscape.'
Annemarie Lopez joins a gathering of walkers, artists, scholars, and ecologists in Northern Greece www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/wild...
Annemarie Lopez joins a gathering of walkers, artists, scholars, and ecologists in Northern Greece www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/wild...
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🚌 GREYHOUND by Joanna Pocock publishes today 🚌
‘Traversing urban metropolises and desert vistas, GREYHOUND is an erudite study of how living among others became a dying art.’
— Ellen Peirson-Hagger, THE OBSERVER
🚌
Read an excerpt and order a copy: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/greyho...
‘Traversing urban metropolises and desert vistas, GREYHOUND is an erudite study of how living among others became a dying art.’
— Ellen Peirson-Hagger, THE OBSERVER
🚌
Read an excerpt and order a copy: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/greyho...
August 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
🚌 GREYHOUND by Joanna Pocock publishes today 🚌
‘Traversing urban metropolises and desert vistas, GREYHOUND is an erudite study of how living among others became a dying art.’
— Ellen Peirson-Hagger, THE OBSERVER
🚌
Read an excerpt and order a copy: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/greyho...
‘Traversing urban metropolises and desert vistas, GREYHOUND is an erudite study of how living among others became a dying art.’
— Ellen Peirson-Hagger, THE OBSERVER
🚌
Read an excerpt and order a copy: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/greyho...
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A reminder that we are currently seeking submissions to a special edition of our irregular print zine An Antidote to Indifference, dedicated entirely to the count(r)y of Cornwall. Submissions close on 1st September 2025.
More details: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/subm...
More details: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/subm...
August 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
A reminder that we are currently seeking submissions to a special edition of our irregular print zine An Antidote to Indifference, dedicated entirely to the count(r)y of Cornwall. Submissions close on 1st September 2025.
More details: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/subm...
More details: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/subm...
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I'm deeply grateful to @wordscaper.bsky.social for this thoughtful piece about my work, walking, climate change and the lessons of a receding lake @walklistencreate.org
walklistencreate.org/2025/08/04/t...
walklistencreate.org/2025/08/04/t...
The Forest That Followed the Lake: Julian Hoffman's path to Prespa's shores
Walking offered what conversation could not yet provide: a way in, a way to begin to belong.
walklistencreate.org
August 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I'm deeply grateful to @wordscaper.bsky.social for this thoughtful piece about my work, walking, climate change and the lessons of a receding lake @walklistencreate.org
walklistencreate.org/2025/08/04/t...
walklistencreate.org/2025/08/04/t...
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www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 7.15pm British Summer Time, GMT +1, Tx from New Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London W1A, on the digital, FM, Long Wave, AM and MW spectra and frequencies to the Universe, known and unknown. Please listen! We mean, as men, every single word xx
BBC Radio 4 - Illuminated, Into the West
Horatio Clare goes in search of the bird he’s loved since childhood: the red-billed chough
www.bbc.co.uk
August 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 7.15pm British Summer Time, GMT +1, Tx from New Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London W1A, on the digital, FM, Long Wave, AM and MW spectra and frequencies to the Universe, known and unknown. Please listen! We mean, as men, every single word xx
May 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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🚨BREAKING: More than 800 UK lawyers have written to Keir Starmer urging the government to impose SANCTIONS on Israel to meet its legal obligations.
The letter argues that there is 'mounting evidence of a genocide' in Gaza.
Who else thinks these lawyers are correct?
The letter argues that there is 'mounting evidence of a genocide' in Gaza.
Who else thinks these lawyers are correct?
May 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
🚨BREAKING: More than 800 UK lawyers have written to Keir Starmer urging the government to impose SANCTIONS on Israel to meet its legal obligations.
The letter argues that there is 'mounting evidence of a genocide' in Gaza.
Who else thinks these lawyers are correct?
The letter argues that there is 'mounting evidence of a genocide' in Gaza.
Who else thinks these lawyers are correct?
Late light in Malpas
May 27, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Late light in Malpas
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So, the first major review for LIFELINES is out and I'm overwhelmed by its incredible generosity and sensitivity. With immense thanks to @alexpreston.bsky.social for writing so deeply and thoughtfully about the book in yesterday's Observer. @eandtbooks.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Why Julian Hoffman left London for a wild Greek lake | The Observer
Born of a spontaneous decision to up sticks for the Grecian wilderness, Julian Hoffman’s poetic memoir is an inspiring call to throw caution to the wind
observer.co.uk
May 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
So, the first major review for LIFELINES is out and I'm overwhelmed by its incredible generosity and sensitivity. With immense thanks to @alexpreston.bsky.social for writing so deeply and thoughtfully about the book in yesterday's Observer. @eandtbooks.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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‘A fox screams. People being thrown around the fairground rides scream. Parents scream for their children.’
Dog Walk Report: Theft of land on @divaeh.bsky.social’s doorstep begets theft of land, liberty, and life 2000 miles away www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/05/broc...
Dog Walk Report: Theft of land on @divaeh.bsky.social’s doorstep begets theft of land, liberty, and life 2000 miles away www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/05/broc...
May 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
‘A fox screams. People being thrown around the fairground rides scream. Parents scream for their children.’
Dog Walk Report: Theft of land on @divaeh.bsky.social’s doorstep begets theft of land, liberty, and life 2000 miles away www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/05/broc...
Dog Walk Report: Theft of land on @divaeh.bsky.social’s doorstep begets theft of land, liberty, and life 2000 miles away www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/05/broc...
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Where Dartmoor leads, England and Wales will follow!
600 people gathered today at Haytor Rocks on Dartmoor to celebrate the Supreme Court verdict on wild camping - and call for a new Right to Roam Act to extend wild camping & access rights in England.
Pic: @paulpowlesland.bsky.social
600 people gathered today at Haytor Rocks on Dartmoor to celebrate the Supreme Court verdict on wild camping - and call for a new Right to Roam Act to extend wild camping & access rights in England.
Pic: @paulpowlesland.bsky.social
May 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Where Dartmoor leads, England and Wales will follow!
600 people gathered today at Haytor Rocks on Dartmoor to celebrate the Supreme Court verdict on wild camping - and call for a new Right to Roam Act to extend wild camping & access rights in England.
Pic: @paulpowlesland.bsky.social
600 people gathered today at Haytor Rocks on Dartmoor to celebrate the Supreme Court verdict on wild camping - and call for a new Right to Roam Act to extend wild camping & access rights in England.
Pic: @paulpowlesland.bsky.social
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G, by Zaffar Kunial
May 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
G, by Zaffar Kunial
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Bevis Bowden’s latest film 'Marginalia | song to the river' explores the river and its wildlife in a time of increasing land pressure and climate change www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/05/marg...
May 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Bevis Bowden’s latest film 'Marginalia | song to the river' explores the river and its wildlife in a time of increasing land pressure and climate change www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/05/marg...
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'In [the starling's] deranged eclectic sampling: clicks & clacks of an aerosol paint can...hysterical yaffles of woodpecker, screeches of parakeet, car alarms, sirens, whoops...'
The birds, bees & butterflies are busy in Mark Mattock‘s feral’d NW2 garden www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/05/peck...
The birds, bees & butterflies are busy in Mark Mattock‘s feral’d NW2 garden www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/05/peck...
May 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
'In [the starling's] deranged eclectic sampling: clicks & clacks of an aerosol paint can...hysterical yaffles of woodpecker, screeches of parakeet, car alarms, sirens, whoops...'
The birds, bees & butterflies are busy in Mark Mattock‘s feral’d NW2 garden www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/05/peck...
The birds, bees & butterflies are busy in Mark Mattock‘s feral’d NW2 garden www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/05/peck...
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It would be SO easy for @teamlabouruk.bsky.social to help nature in the UK in this small way, but they choose not to.
Each morning I watch the sky fill with swifts, and wonder how much longer I have to get a glimpse into their world. Infuriating and wrong.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Each morning I watch the sky fill with swifts, and wonder how much longer I have to get a glimpse into their world. Infuriating and wrong.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes
MPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds
www.theguardian.com
May 25, 2025 at 9:55 AM
It would be SO easy for @teamlabouruk.bsky.social to help nature in the UK in this small way, but they choose not to.
Each morning I watch the sky fill with swifts, and wonder how much longer I have to get a glimpse into their world. Infuriating and wrong.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Each morning I watch the sky fill with swifts, and wonder how much longer I have to get a glimpse into their world. Infuriating and wrong.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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"Uncertainty is the most rational position to embrace, and unlike optimism or pessimism, it does not entrench us in complacency or inaction."
No Straight Road Takes You There by Rebecca Solnit review – an activist’s antidote to despair @theguardian.com @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
No Straight Road Takes You There by Rebecca Solnit review – an activist’s antidote to despair @theguardian.com @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
No Straight Road Takes You There by Rebecca Solnit review – an activist’s antidote to despair
Hope is no casual platitude in this inspiring collection of essays; it’s the realistic mindset with which to approach existential challenges
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
"Uncertainty is the most rational position to embrace, and unlike optimism or pessimism, it does not entrench us in complacency or inaction."
No Straight Road Takes You There by Rebecca Solnit review – an activist’s antidote to despair @theguardian.com @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
No Straight Road Takes You There by Rebecca Solnit review – an activist’s antidote to despair @theguardian.com @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
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Greenpeace expresses deep alarm at the catastrophic humanitarian toll of the ongoing Gaza conflict, exacerbated by renewed military action known as Gideons’ Chariots and described by Netenyahu’s cabinet in the language of ethnic cleansing.
Read the full statement on act.gp/4kyYim4
Read the full statement on act.gp/4kyYim4
May 23, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Greenpeace expresses deep alarm at the catastrophic humanitarian toll of the ongoing Gaza conflict, exacerbated by renewed military action known as Gideons’ Chariots and described by Netenyahu’s cabinet in the language of ethnic cleansing.
Read the full statement on act.gp/4kyYim4
Read the full statement on act.gp/4kyYim4
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Victory for wild camping at the Supreme Court!
The verdict is a relief– but Dartmoor remains the *only* place in England & Wales where the public has a right to wild camp
Labour must now pass a new right to roam act to defend & extend the public’s access rights
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The verdict is a relief– but Dartmoor remains the *only* place in England & Wales where the public has a right to wild camp
Labour must now pass a new right to roam act to defend & extend the public’s access rights
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Wild camping on Dartmoor is legal, supreme court rules
Case came to supreme court after court of appeal determined the term ‘open-air recreation’ included camping
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Victory for wild camping at the Supreme Court!
The verdict is a relief– but Dartmoor remains the *only* place in England & Wales where the public has a right to wild camp
Labour must now pass a new right to roam act to defend & extend the public’s access rights
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The verdict is a relief– but Dartmoor remains the *only* place in England & Wales where the public has a right to wild camp
Labour must now pass a new right to roam act to defend & extend the public’s access rights
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Next week, North London’s OmVed Gardens reopens to the public, unveiling the UK’s first centre for food, ecology & creativity.
The reopening coincides with Vivienne Schadinsky's 'Into the Seeds of Time', documenting the journey of beans from seed to harvest www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/05/omve...
The reopening coincides with Vivienne Schadinsky's 'Into the Seeds of Time', documenting the journey of beans from seed to harvest www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/05/omve...
May 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Next week, North London’s OmVed Gardens reopens to the public, unveiling the UK’s first centre for food, ecology & creativity.
The reopening coincides with Vivienne Schadinsky's 'Into the Seeds of Time', documenting the journey of beans from seed to harvest www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/05/omve...
The reopening coincides with Vivienne Schadinsky's 'Into the Seeds of Time', documenting the journey of beans from seed to harvest www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/05/omve...
Dispatches from Malpas
May 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Dispatches from Malpas