Landscapism

Hotfoot from viewing new documentary film  Arcadia , some initial thoughts on what seems quite a zeitgeist-y piece of work for those in t...

"The power had been completely placed in the hands of the Norman nobility ... and it had been used with no moderate hand." ...

After a two month lay-off due to a ruptured Achilles tendon I am glad to be back out roaming again. A day of late autumnal brilliance ...

This is a longer version of a review that was written for the Caught By The River web site . This is a view from the west of a book a...

"I thought of walks in the English countryside, where people start shouting at you as soon as you stray from the footpath".   ...

Three books are occupying my thoughts at the moment; linked by their combination of a contemporary critique of the harsh realities of la...

"Let me love the country, the rivers running through the valleys, the streams and woodlands - happy though unknown. Give me broad fie...

William Morris News from Nowhere by William Morris (1890) is one of my 'on the go' books that I dip in and out of. The combina...