A pilgrimage to the Calder stones, older than the pyramids of Giza, these 6 local Triarassic stones have always been the mystical neolithic time lords that has been the centre of a community. Grateful to The Reader for the fab conservation work here.
thereader.org.uk/visit-calderst…

All the travel up and down the country has taken its toll and my laptop has kicked the proverbial bucket last week, and it occurs to me that I should alert folk that trying to contact me by email will be fruitless. Currently experiencing significant withdrawal symptoms.

My favourite seat in the Childwall Abbey pub.

#Woodensday

Will be discussing my book Our Island Stories: Country Walks Through Colonial Britain on LBC radio at approx 12.45 today.

Below, Dr. Ibrahima Seck, my walking companion through Hampshire who explored the area's banking connections to slavery with me.

Dilini Algama, she/her Shire house had a very farm house feel about it, which it lent itself to very well. I am having a bout of steep nostalgia for my lost kitchen.

Slightly disoriented today, as if I have been disconnected from a life support system, I have found the perfect antidote. My post box crammed full of about a months worth of snailmail, included these lovely book tokens from the Diocese of Oxford.

Book recommendations welcome!

All the travel up and down the country has taken its toll and my laptop has kicked the proverbial bucket last week, and it occurs to me that I should alert folk that trying to contact me by email will be fruitless. Currently experiencing significant withdrawal symptoms.

Today I handed over the typescript of my new book Is A River Alive? to my editor & friend Simon Prosser.
It felt—after 3+ yrs’ work—like a big moment.
To mark it we walked up to the springs near my house, where a river is born—and the book begins & ends.
More on the project below.

Dilini Algama, she/her I am very fond of that set. I have replicated most of the crockery I expatriated to SL, here in Bham, but I haven't found that set yet.

Dilini Algama, she/her I am glad I am not the only who gets excited about crockery. Went back home to Liverpool yesterday, and finally managed to bring back my Laura Ashley mugs and fine bone bone china. I had been using IKEA mugs all this time.

How do we feel about Newts?

The highlight of this week has been catching up with the extraordinarily brilliant Paolo Beltrame at Liverpool Cathedral, about his time at the Vatican Observatory vaticanobservatory.bsky.social, discussing the joys and challenges of working in the long shadows of the established church.

What does a Jesuit know about the #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope ? Well have a look at what Paolo Beltrame has to say about it. Vatican Observatory vaticanobservatory.bsky.social #JWST Hubble laciviltacattolica.com/so-we-went-out…

This time last year, the Large Hadron Collider was switched on for the 1st time in 3 yrs to continue the search for the unknown. My fabulous former house mate at Newman house, Paolo Beltrame, S.J., explains as long as there is error there is hope!
CERN.

laciviltacattolica.com/muoni-as-long-…

Paying homage to the ancient Irish oak that legend has, 'seen a millennium of change flicker in a gust of wind', reputed to be a site of a medieval #HundredCourt , no more than 500 yards from my 1st home in Old Allerton, that gave leafy shelter to my 20s.
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Having had way too many Sri Lankan delicacies for lunch, one overfull contumacious Canon reporting for duty at Liverpool Cathedral .

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Calderstones Park Forever BBC North West BBC Merseyside Claire Hamilton Civic Voice David Morgan Friends of the Earth Liam Thorp Cllr Tom Crone (he/him) Richard Kemp CBE Liam Murphy Maria Eagle MP Laura Robertson-Collins Tom Belger

Eric SMITH Calderstones Park Forever A meadow sown on top of concrete into 100 ton of Merseygrit, 20 ton of small stones and 1 ton of Biochar by Scouse Flowerhouse in Calderstones Park Calderstones Park Forever # Liverpool as featured on BBC Gardener’s World. Just amazing !

A pilgrimage to the Calder stones, older than the pyramids of Giza, these 6 local Triarassic stones have always been the mystical neolithic time lords that has been the centre of a community. Grateful to The Reader for the fab conservation work here.
thereader.org.uk/visit-calderst…

The generous floriferous orchards of cherry blossoms that wreath the park and the ebb & flow of banks of narcissi that flood the lawns in spring, rejuvenate the bleak human souls who escape the draining industry of their 9 to 5 to this Arcadian idyll. #SaveCalderstonesPark 4/