Many many moons ago I worked with Steve Westerberg, Geltsdale's site manager, at Thornley Woods for Gateshead Council. The twinkle of joy in his eyes and voice at the simple sound of a curlew overhead here - is my defining memory of him. What an incredible place he's reinstating on the moors here.

Buried in today's Daily Telegraph, Church Commissioner Alan Smith writes:

"Fossil fuel investors are at risk of becoming the real anti-capitalists"

How to repurpose your Christmas tree 🎄
Make a leaky dam!

#SlowTheFlow
#SustainabilityUk
#Ecology
#SmallholdersUk

Health, wealth and happiness to you and yours, from me and mine, for 2025 from the Tar Barreling Dale
#HNY
#2025
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Book recommendation: accessible graphic novel tying together all the scary snap shots of the #metacrisis and showing #thrutopia solutions- how we got where we are, and how to get from here to where we need to be
www.penguin.co.uk/books/457628...

Beautiful first light this morning in the
#NorthPennines
"Perfect for playing football" says the old dog

Way down south at Eltham Palace on the far side of London this week, for the @heritage-crafts.bsky.social Awards with my 15yo bursary winner son.
The view from Henry VIII's childhood home, and what a view, but how it must have changed since then.

Every year on Thanksgiving at 12pm, I, like many others, turn on the radio to listen to "Alice's Restaurant." Growing up, I'd sit w/my parents and listen; now, I sit w/my kids

Alice died today at 83

You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant (excepting Alice)

www.wbur.org/news/2024/11...

#Blanchland #Abbey - Christmas makers fair, celebration of the 6As project and plans for the #TreasuresOfBlanchland
Do join us 10-4 Sat 23rd + Sun 24th November 2024.
Wrap up warm - we don't have heating yet!
www.blanchland.org/visit-blanch...

@hexhamtv.bsky.social
@northpennines.bsky.social

Wifi boosting up in the belfry, then #geophysics around the Abbey precinct, then heading to Alston makers markets and thene on to #SherwoodForest to pick up my bro before taking my proto-blacksmith to the reenactors markets for the weekend.

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Hello friends!

I am a freelance chartered #geographer specialising in #rural and #heritage based, #community led projects in the north of England.

I support organisations to make the best of their #wildlife, #stories, #buildings, & #landscapes

See www.conchie.co

#SustainabilityUK
#GeoSky
#EnvHum

#squeezegap
Defensible C13th tower entrance at #BlanchlandAbbey making it tricky for the Border Reivers to attack.

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