Nick Acheson
@themarshtit.bsky.social
Nature conservation. Low carbon living. Classical music and opera. Theatre and books. Gruesome lefty vegan tree-hugger. 🏳️⚧️ ally. Happiest when muddy.
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Nick Acheson
@themarshtit.bsky.social
· Nov 24
On these Natural History shelves at Norwich @waterstones.bsky.social I’ve just counted 38 authors I’ve interviewed.
No wonder I never have time for Dickens!
No wonder I never have time for Dickens!
I just listened to Jessye Norman singing the Vier letzte Lieder.
If you need me today, you’ll find me sobbing into my pillow.
If you need me today, you’ll find me sobbing into my pillow.
December 17, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I just listened to Jessye Norman singing the Vier letzte Lieder.
If you need me today, you’ll find me sobbing into my pillow.
If you need me today, you’ll find me sobbing into my pillow.
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After a couple weeks trapped indoors, long walks, some winter sunshine, and some four-footed company were most welcome today.
December 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
After a couple weeks trapped indoors, long walks, some winter sunshine, and some four-footed company were most welcome today.
Horses as drivers of biodiversity: burdock seeds which will fall from a forelock next time it is shed and Poronia punctata, nail fungus, which apparently returned to Norfolk with ponies NWT imported from Dartmoor a few years ago and is now found on various nature reserves where horses roam freely.
December 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Horses as drivers of biodiversity: burdock seeds which will fall from a forelock next time it is shed and Poronia punctata, nail fungus, which apparently returned to Norfolk with ponies NWT imported from Dartmoor a few years ago and is now found on various nature reserves where horses roam freely.
After a couple weeks trapped indoors, long walks, some winter sunshine, and some four-footed company were most welcome today.
December 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
After a couple weeks trapped indoors, long walks, some winter sunshine, and some four-footed company were most welcome today.
Good morning from a wild corner of Norfolk, from the Dexter cows, from the lark above and from me
December 13, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Good morning from a wild corner of Norfolk, from the Dexter cows, from the lark above and from me
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
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Really very special to be included in @civileats.com 2025 Winter Holiday Book Gift Guide! The true story of Miss White & her incredible, innovative women farmers of the 40s & 50s would be delighted! @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Really very special to be included in @civileats.com 2025 Winter Holiday Book Gift Guide! The true story of Miss White & her incredible, innovative women farmers of the 40s & 50s would be delighted! @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social
Ah yes, we have reached the end-stage of our society at which I can learn about birds without the wretched inconvenience of having to go outdoors and look at birds.
Is it really only me?
Is it really only me?
December 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Ah yes, we have reached the end-stage of our society at which I can learn about birds without the wretched inconvenience of having to go outdoors and look at birds.
Is it really only me?
Is it really only me?
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Ah, this looks a captivating read just going by the title & author! It brought to mind one of my favourite quotes (I hope you don’t mind me including here, Nick):
December 5, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Ah, this looks a captivating read just going by the title & author! It brought to mind one of my favourite quotes (I hope you don’t mind me including here, Nick):
There comes a point in every boy’s life when it’s time to rock out the Weihnachts Oratorium.
December 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
There comes a point in every boy’s life when it’s time to rock out the Weihnachts Oratorium.
Some people are sent to Earth to make everyone else’s lives better. @lucylapwing.bsky.social just glows with kindness and love and pure, unfettered joy in the wild. I’ve only read one chapter of Love Is a Toad before today but I know that it will glow too.
December 5, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Some people are sent to Earth to make everyone else’s lives better. @lucylapwing.bsky.social just glows with kindness and love and pure, unfettered joy in the wild. I’ve only read one chapter of Love Is a Toad before today but I know that it will glow too.
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Since I’m heading to Norfolk tomorrow for a talk with @timholtwilson.bsky.social and @themarshtit.bsky.social at Cley (22 tickets still available), bird place-name of the day 119 is CRANMER (Norf). OE cran + mer. ‘Crane pool/marsh’. #birdsandplace #PlaceNames #naturewriting
December 4, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Since I’m heading to Norfolk tomorrow for a talk with @timholtwilson.bsky.social and @themarshtit.bsky.social at Cley (22 tickets still available), bird place-name of the day 119 is CRANMER (Norf). OE cran + mer. ‘Crane pool/marsh’. #birdsandplace #PlaceNames #naturewriting
And now we sit and wait until pages and pages of notes start to make some kind of narrative sense.
In the words of Captain Oates…
In the words of Captain Oates…
December 4, 2025 at 7:03 AM
And now we sit and wait until pages and pages of notes start to make some kind of narrative sense.
In the words of Captain Oates…
In the words of Captain Oates…
And that was November …
December 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
And that was November …
I can hear a little owl from my bed. First time in years.
Last night I gave a talk in which the local decline of little owls was tangentially mentioned. A few hours later, an 🦉 is pointing out I know nothing.
Last night I gave a talk in which the local decline of little owls was tangentially mentioned. A few hours later, an 🦉 is pointing out I know nothing.
November 29, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I can hear a little owl from my bed. First time in years.
Last night I gave a talk in which the local decline of little owls was tangentially mentioned. A few hours later, an 🦉 is pointing out I know nothing.
Last night I gave a talk in which the local decline of little owls was tangentially mentioned. A few hours later, an 🦉 is pointing out I know nothing.
🦢 🦢 courtship on a towpath.
I’m here for it.
I’m here for it.
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
🦢 🦢 courtship on a towpath.
I’m here for it.
I’m here for it.
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Oh - my current read (and rabbit hole - thinking about place names and the medieval birds locked within them, as if in amber) “The Cuckoo’s Lea”.
Michael is at NWT Cley 5th Dec with @themarshtit.bsky.social doing his usual convivial thing of getting the very best out of people.
Michael is at NWT Cley 5th Dec with @themarshtit.bsky.social doing his usual convivial thing of getting the very best out of people.
Well now, #BBCWildlife magazine, glad you think so. ☺️ Right there with the likes of @sophiepavs.bsky.social and @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social and @nicwilson.bsky.social. #naturewriting #bestnaturewriting2025
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Oh - my current read (and rabbit hole - thinking about place names and the medieval birds locked within them, as if in amber) “The Cuckoo’s Lea”.
Michael is at NWT Cley 5th Dec with @themarshtit.bsky.social doing his usual convivial thing of getting the very best out of people.
Michael is at NWT Cley 5th Dec with @themarshtit.bsky.social doing his usual convivial thing of getting the very best out of people.
On these Natural History shelves at Norwich @waterstones.bsky.social I’ve just counted 38 authors I’ve interviewed.
No wonder I never have time for Dickens!
No wonder I never have time for Dickens!
November 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
On these Natural History shelves at Norwich @waterstones.bsky.social I’ve just counted 38 authors I’ve interviewed.
No wonder I never have time for Dickens!
No wonder I never have time for Dickens!
A garbage gull at a Greggs
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
A garbage gull at a Greggs
I heard a tawny owl as I walked home from our kooky little 1950s cinema last night.
And I heard a tawny owl as I walked for my bus to Norwich this morning.
Every time they make me smile.
🦉
And I heard a tawny owl as I walked for my bus to Norwich this morning.
Every time they make me smile.
🦉
November 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
I heard a tawny owl as I walked home from our kooky little 1950s cinema last night.
And I heard a tawny owl as I walked for my bus to Norwich this morning.
Every time they make me smile.
🦉
And I heard a tawny owl as I walked for my bus to Norwich this morning.
Every time they make me smile.
🦉
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Tomoz at Dragon Hall, Nodge. I know that no one's interested but I have to go through the motions. 😂
All books will be going cheap.
Dragon Hall is a medieval merchant's house close to the River Wensum. It's steeped in history and actually has dragons!
All books will be going cheap.
Dragon Hall is a medieval merchant's house close to the River Wensum. It's steeped in history and actually has dragons!
November 21, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Tomoz at Dragon Hall, Nodge. I know that no one's interested but I have to go through the motions. 😂
All books will be going cheap.
Dragon Hall is a medieval merchant's house close to the River Wensum. It's steeped in history and actually has dragons!
All books will be going cheap.
Dragon Hall is a medieval merchant's house close to the River Wensum. It's steeped in history and actually has dragons!
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This will be fun ☺️
People of Norfolk, come and spend a cosy winter evening with me, @themarshtit.bsky.social and @timholtwilson.bsky.social as we talk birds, landscape and history at NWT’s Cley reserve on 5th Dec. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tales-of-b.... #NorfolkWildlifeTrust #NorfolkNature #naturewriting
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This will be fun ☺️
This will be fun ☺️
People of Norfolk, come and spend a cosy winter evening with me, @themarshtit.bsky.social and @timholtwilson.bsky.social as we talk birds, landscape and history at NWT’s Cley reserve on 5th Dec. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tales-of-b.... #NorfolkWildlifeTrust #NorfolkNature #naturewriting
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This will be fun ☺️
I have filed three articles this morning and I am MIGHTY
November 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I have filed three articles this morning and I am MIGHTY