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Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social · 9h

@nicolawriting.bsky.social, on my way to Crediton for my talk with @guyshrubsole.bsky.social tonight, and thinking of you as we stop at Hungerford. Sadly no time to jump off and pay you a flying visit!

Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social · 12h

If you haven’t got your ticket yet, you still can: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/cre...

Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social · 12h

Tonight’s the night— @guyshrubsole.bsky.social and I are at @thebookery.bsky.social! Last one in my Devon series, making bird place-name of the day 112: COCKWOOD. OE cocc + wudu. ‘Wood where woodcock are seen’. #birdsandplace #naturewriting

OS map showing Devon village of Cockwood.

Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social · 1d

See you there. @guyshrubsole.bsky.social and I will be taking birds, place and belonging, with, of course, a distinct Devon flavour! #WhatsOn #Crediton #AuthorTalks

The Bookery, Crediton @thebookery.bsky.social · 1d

It's tomorrow!

🐦‍⬛ We can't wait to welcome @drmjwarren.bsky.social to The Bookery to discuss his new book, The Cuckoo’s Lea: The Forgotten History of Birds & Place, in conversation with environmental campaigner and author Guy Shrubsole! Ticket £5, book & ticket £20 at www.thebookery.org.uk/events

The Bookery, Crediton @thebookery.bsky.social · 1d

It's tomorrow!

🐦‍⬛ We can't wait to welcome @drmjwarren.bsky.social to The Bookery to discuss his new book, The Cuckoo’s Lea: The Forgotten History of Birds & Place, in conversation with environmental campaigner and author Guy Shrubsole! Ticket £5, book & ticket £20 at www.thebookery.org.uk/events

Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social · 2d

There are still some tickets left for my event with @guyshrubsole.bsky.social. See you there! www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/cre... #Crediton #WhatsOn

www.ticketsource.co.uk

Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social · 2d

Continuing with the Devon series in the run up to my event on 13th @thebookery.bsky.social, bird place-name of the day 111 is: KITLEY. Old English: cyta + leah. ‘Kite woodland/clearing’. #birdsandplace #naturewriting

OS map showing minor place-name, Kitley.

Right to Roam @righttoroam.bsky.social · 2d

Our North West Local Group set out on a trespass walk along the River Bollin, rambling through town, woodland, water, and fields. Along the way, they visited a woodland microenclosure watched over by CCTV cameras, and later took to the river for a paddle.

Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 2d

The poem on my heart today: #Adlestrop, by Edward Thomas. A moment of stillness at a deserted railway station in the summer of 1914: written in early 1915, and published in spring 1917, just days after Second Lieutenant Edward Thomas, Royal Garrison Artillery, was killed at the Battle of Arras.

Yes. I remember Adlestrop—
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.

The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
No one left and no one came
On the bare platform. What I saw
Was Adlestrop—only the name

And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,
No whit less still and lonely fair
Than the high cloudlets in the sky.

And for that minute a blackbird sang
Close by, and round him, mistier,
Farther and farther, all the birds
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.

Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social · 4d

Continuing with the Devon series in the run up to my event on 13th @thebookery.bsky.social, bird place-name of the day 110 is: GOSFORD. Straightforward this one and the name hasn’t changed at all from the Old English: gos + ford. ‘Ford where geese can cross’. #birdsandplace #naturewriting

OS map showing Devon village of Gosford.

Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social · 5d

It’s all worrying isn’t it. I genuinely suffer from anxiety on these matters.

Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social · 5d

And if you already have books by @guyshrubsole.bsky.social, bring them along for signing!

Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social · 5d

Really looking forward to this, with @guyshrubsole.bsky.social, next Thursday (13th Nov). Come and join us for an evening of birds, place and belonging. #Crediton #naturewriting

The Bookery, Crediton @thebookery.bsky.social · 5d

🎫 Have you got your ticket yet?

🐦‍⬛ We can't wait to welcome @drmjwarren.bsky.social to The Bookery this coming Thursday to discuss his new book, The Cuckoo’s Lea: The Forgotten History of Birds and Place, in conversation with environmental campaigner and author Guy Shrubsole! 🧵 ⬇️

Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social · 5d

Oh please let these forecast temperatures be on the way later on this November. I can’t deal with this warmth. Literally very comfortable out in shorts and t-shirt today. 😔 #WarmNovember #RecordBreakingWeather

The Bookery, Crediton @thebookery.bsky.social · 5d

🎫 Have you got your ticket yet?

🐦‍⬛ We can't wait to welcome @drmjwarren.bsky.social to The Bookery this coming Thursday to discuss his new book, The Cuckoo’s Lea: The Forgotten History of Birds and Place, in conversation with environmental campaigner and author Guy Shrubsole! 🧵 ⬇️

Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 6d

"Giving up [on 1.5C] would be a total betrayal. Defeatism never took a single of a fraction of a degree of global warming. It never created a single job.”

Hear, hear, Ed Miliband.

(But also: some of those defeatists appear to be in the Treasury currently)

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Giving up would be a betrayal’: Miliband says 1.5C target still alive before Cop30

Exclusive: Environment secretary says global tipping points are possible as he rejects far-right climate ‘defeatism’

www.theguardian.com

Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social · 6d

Ramridge may no longer be there, but ravens sure are in the area. If you’re a Devon local, come and here me and @guyshrubsole.bsky.social talk about ravens and other birds in the places of Devon, @thebookery.bsky.social in Crediton, 13th November: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/cre...

www.ticketsource.co.uk

Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social · 6d

Bird place-name of the day 109: RAMRIDGE (lost place, somewhere in Devon parish of Holcombe Burnell: www.heritagegateway.org.uk/gateway/Resu... ). OE hremn + hrycg. ‘Ravens’ ridge’. #birdsandplace #naturewriting

Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social · 7d

Still in Devon, bird place-name of the day 108 is KIGBEARE. OE ca + bearu. ‘Jackdaw wood’. #birdsandplace #naturewriting

OS map showing Devon village of KIGBEARE.

Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 8d

This is absolutely appalling.

"The UK will not contribute to a flagship fund for the world’s remaining tropical forests, in a bitter blow to the Brazilian hosts on the eve of the Cop30 climate summit."

Absolutely pathetic.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests

Decision is bitter blow to Brazil ahead of fund’s launch at Cop30 – and an embarrassment to Prince William

www.theguardian.com

Matthew Hayek @matthewhayek.bsky.social · 8d

European countries want Brazil to increase forest conservation (it certainly can). But some of the world's best opportunities to spare & restore carbon in native forests—while displacing the least food production—actually lie in Europe. Our analysis shows this: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social · 8d

That’s directly cognate with Old English hremn, an alternative to hrefn.

Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social · 8d

😁👍

Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks Chris. Great to hear you’re enjoying. Yes, I’m Dr Warren, fully paid up medievalist! Check out my website and book for more info on place-name study. Sources for my work are from, and supported by, the English Place-Name Society.

Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social · 9d

Next in the Devon series, bird place-name of the day 107: DUNKESWELL. OE dunnoc + wella. ‘Dunnock’s spring’. #birdsandplace #naturewriting

OS map showing Devon village of DUNKESWELL.

Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social · 9d

Not sure my year 11 boys can cope with it, once I’ve revealed just how vulgar Mercutio is being. They certainly struggle to write about that sort of thing in an appropriately academic fashion!

Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social · 9d

Literally just taught this ribaldry to my year 11 classes.

Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks both, see you in December!

Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social · 10d

For more examples of bird place-names, see www.birdsandplace.co.uk

The Birds and Place Project

www.birdsandplace.co.uk

Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social · 10d

Bird place-name of the day 106: EXWELL BARTON. Continuing my daily Devon series in the run up to my event @thebookery.bsky.social in Crediton, here’s one you’d never guess. From OE geac + wella, it means ‘cuckoo’s spring’. Now what about that? #birdsandplace #naturewriting

OS map showing minor place, Exwell Barton.

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