David Ashworth
@davidashworth16.bsky.social
Making music with stories
https://davidashworth.bandcamp.com/
https://davidashworth.bandcamp.com/
Looking forward so much to Jessa Liversidge Sheffield gig in a couple of weeks! Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/.../carole-k....
September 25, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Looking forward so much to Jessa Liversidge Sheffield gig in a couple of weeks! Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/.../carole-k....
A very, very busy Autumn lined up. Today tickets go on sale for the 'Sounds on Saturdays' concerts I'm helping to organise. Some great music heading to Sheffield in a few week's time ...
September 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
A very, very busy Autumn lined up. Today tickets go on sale for the 'Sounds on Saturdays' concerts I'm helping to organise. Some great music heading to Sheffield in a few week's time ...
Love this from Humanists UK! #Thatshumanism is the perfect introduction to the humanist approach to life, featuring four animations narrated by Stephen Fry, and brand new posters all about humanism for schools. Have a look for yourself! humanists.uk/thatshumanism/
That's humanism
Humanists make sense of the world through logic, reason, and evidence, and always seek to treat those around us with warmth, understanding, and respect.
humanists.uk
August 31, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Love this from Humanists UK! #Thatshumanism is the perfect introduction to the humanist approach to life, featuring four animations narrated by Stephen Fry, and brand new posters all about humanism for schools. Have a look for yourself! humanists.uk/thatshumanism/
Love this from Humanists UK! #Thatshumanism is the perfect introduction to the humanist approach to life, featuring four animations narrated by Stephen Fry, and brand new posters all about humanism for schools. Have a look for yourself! humanists.uk/thatshumanism/
That's humanism!
Humanists make sense of the world through logic, reason, and evidence, and always seek to treat those around us with warmth, understanding, and respect.
humanists.uk
August 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Love this from Humanists UK! #Thatshumanism is the perfect introduction to the humanist approach to life, featuring four animations narrated by Stephen Fry, and brand new posters all about humanism for schools. Have a look for yourself! humanists.uk/thatshumanism/
Looking forward to seeing/hearing York Guitar Quartet in action in Sheffield in October ...
August 29, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Looking forward to seeing/hearing York Guitar Quartet in action in Sheffield in October ...
How do we know what’s true? Narrated by Stephen Fry, #Thatshumanism shows why science, experimentation, and evidence are the most reliable ways to understand the world. Watch the video: humanists.uk/thatshumanism/
That's humanism!
We've teamed up with our patron Stephen Fry, to explore humanist ideas about some of life’s big questions in four animated shorts.
humanists.uk
August 27, 2025 at 7:57 AM
How do we know what’s true? Narrated by Stephen Fry, #Thatshumanism shows why science, experimentation, and evidence are the most reliable ways to understand the world. Watch the video: humanists.uk/thatshumanism/
Love this from Humanists UK! #Thatshumanism is the perfect introduction to the humanist approach to life, featuring four animations narrated by Stephen Fry, and brand new posters all about humanism for schools. Have a look for yourself! humanists.uk/thatshumanism/
That's humanism!
We've teamed up with our patron Stephen Fry, to explore humanist ideas about some of life’s big questions in four animated shorts.
humanists.uk
August 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Love this from Humanists UK! #Thatshumanism is the perfect introduction to the humanist approach to life, featuring four animations narrated by Stephen Fry, and brand new posters all about humanism for schools. Have a look for yourself! humanists.uk/thatshumanism/
Finally, the top of Haystacks – our journey’s end. We have walked from Cockermouth to the source of our river, through a rich and dynamic landscape ... some reflections on the river of life cockervalley.wordpress.com/2025/08/16/c...
Cocker Valley Stories 7: Innominate Tarn – journey’s end
… no more could the restless brookEver turn back and climb the waterfallTo the lake that rests and stirs not in its nook,As in the hollow of the collar-boneUnder the mountain’s head of rush and sto…
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August 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Finally, the top of Haystacks – our journey’s end. We have walked from Cockermouth to the source of our river, through a rich and dynamic landscape ... some reflections on the river of life cockervalley.wordpress.com/2025/08/16/c...
Those of us with long memories will recall Angus's website article from February 2024, where he leaves Dick Hall floundering in a coracle in Workington harbour. Rupert continues this journey in his own home made boat - sailing out into the Solway ... cockervalley.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/g...
Getting Afloat in a Basket
Rupert Ashmore writes: Reading Angus Winchester’s article about Dick Hall, the Quaker grocer from Cockermouth who wrote about the fells under the pen-name of Hobcarton, I was struck by his descript…
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March 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Those of us with long memories will recall Angus's website article from February 2024, where he leaves Dick Hall floundering in a coracle in Workington harbour. Rupert continues this journey in his own home made boat - sailing out into the Solway ... cockervalley.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/g...
Cocker Valley Stories 4: growth and decay cockervalley.wordpress.com/2025/02/23/c...
Cocker Valley Stories 4: growth and decay
Childhood is the once-in-a-lifetime chance to claim places, making them one’s own in a way which slips away in later years. Anyone writing a book about the places of their youth brings their …
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February 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Cocker Valley Stories 4: growth and decay cockervalley.wordpress.com/2025/02/23/c...
A solitary acoustic guitar, given the space to breathe; playing simple languid phrases which emerge from a prevailing silence.https://davidashworth.wordpress.com/in-quieter-ways-an-undertow-of-loneliness/
In Quieter Ways/An Undertow of Loneliness
The “In Quieter Ways” collection is an exercise in stripping back the layers, a ‘less is more’ approach to making music. A solitary acoustic guitar, given the space to breathe; playing …
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February 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
A solitary acoustic guitar, given the space to breathe; playing simple languid phrases which emerge from a prevailing silence.https://davidashworth.wordpress.com/in-quieter-ways-an-undertow-of-loneliness/
Nostalgia is a natural refuge in these occasionally scary times of a world being challenged by AI, war, and dramatic climate change. However ... cockervalley.wordpress.com/2025/01/25/s...
Seeing things clearly – rose-tinted spectacles, change, and passing it on
Marion Bowman writes: Nostalgia is a natural refuge in these occasionally scary times of a world being challenged by AI, war, and dramatic climate change. But when we embarked on our La…
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January 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Nostalgia is a natural refuge in these occasionally scary times of a world being challenged by AI, war, and dramatic climate change. However ... cockervalley.wordpress.com/2025/01/25/s...
Responses to Landscape: a live performance event cockervalley.wordpress.com/2025/01/15/r...
Responses to Landscape: a live performance event
As many of you will be aware, our Project was launched with a multimedia performance to a sellout audience at Kirkgate Arts Centre in Cockermouth in September 2023. We were aware that quite a numbe…
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January 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Responses to Landscape: a live performance event cockervalley.wordpress.com/2025/01/15/r...
Responses to Landscape: a live performance event cockervalley.wordpress.com/2025/01/15/r...
Responses to Landscape: a live performance event
As many of you will be aware, our Project was launched with a multimedia performance to a sellout audience at Kirkgate Arts Centre in Cockermouth in September 2023. We were aware that quite a numbe…
cockervalley.wordpress.com
January 15, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Responses to Landscape: a live performance event cockervalley.wordpress.com/2025/01/15/r...
Cocker Valley Stories 3: looking forwards, looking backwards cockervalley.wordpress.com/2024/12/15/c...
Cocker Valley Stories 3: looking forwards, looking backwards
David Ashworth writes: During my early years, the world around me was essentially flat. The market town in North Wales where I lived was on the coastal plain. Trips elsewhere were mainly visits to …
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December 15, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Cocker Valley Stories 3: looking forwards, looking backwards cockervalley.wordpress.com/2024/12/15/c...
Landscapes make us human and we make landscapes that are living things, not just memories. It’s what we have in common. It’s a relationship to cherish. cockervalley.wordpress.com/2024/01/11/l...
Landscape, memory and being human
Marion Bowman writes: Memory is a slippery business. How reliable is it? It can be conjured through all the senses, the emotions, the good and the bad in life. It can come from many sources and tak…
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November 28, 2024 at 11:31 AM
Landscapes make us human and we make landscapes that are living things, not just memories. It’s what we have in common. It’s a relationship to cherish. cockervalley.wordpress.com/2024/01/11/l...
A tale of two Rannerdales cockervalley.wordpress.com/2024/11/16/a...
November 28, 2024 at 10:29 AM
A tale of two Rannerdales cockervalley.wordpress.com/2024/11/16/a...
As I prepare to begin recording some new works, a fond look back at making music earlier in the year. Still glides the stream... youtu.be/ZvgvXVgPKjk?...
All Sweet Sounds and Harmonies TRAILER
YouTube video by David Ashworth
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November 27, 2024 at 8:46 AM
As I prepare to begin recording some new works, a fond look back at making music earlier in the year. Still glides the stream... youtu.be/ZvgvXVgPKjk?...
A tale of two Rannerdales cockervalley.wordpress.com/2024/11/16/a...
November 18, 2024 at 10:04 AM
A tale of two Rannerdales cockervalley.wordpress.com/2024/11/16/a...