Ana McKellar
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Ana McKellar
@anamca.bsky.social
Always curious. On a narrowboat, hoping for a passivhaus one day.
Landscape history, nature and biodiversity.
Partially-sighted. Please use descriptive alt-text to help screen-readers and include all.
What a great book! I wish I’d known about it when I lived there. I often asked why boots and shoes, and no one could tell me, but I’m glad my supposition was right: pasture for cattle and water for tanning. Good for EH for documenting the buildings. Spotted your drawings.
October 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
There *should* be a level board like this one ⬇️ but with low highway budgets, it may have fallen and not been replaced, or on a road like Mill Beck, which is so low in status it’s way off the scale of priorities, maybe never had one, in expectation of local traffic only.
October 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
September 28, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The floating cruck … 🥺
This is a fascinating house, probably C16 origin, multiple extensions.
#BuildingsArchaeology #OldHouses
September 2, 2025 at 6:59 AM
August 24, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Good article on the breakdown of farming, loss of small farms and loss of variety to agribusiness and development while losing food security to imports from low standard production. At the same time we’re losing allotments so no independence. #Farming #Food theconversation.com/family-farme...
August 13, 2025 at 6:43 AM
I was, too briefly, but snagged a series of their fantastic stiles and a bonus trig point with benchmark. What a place!
August 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Cornwall between Zennor and St Ives but I understand they’re fairly widespread in the county. A variation has a ‘lintel’ above
August 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Specially for @lakesstiles.bsky.social 😆. It’s beyond my camera skills to capture the size and depth of these granite stiles, even with a hound attempting scale
August 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Aww, finished it … and enjoyed every word. Thanks @levparikian.bsky.social for the pleasure.
Lovely book about rediscovering bird-watching, that’s birding not twitching, an important difference you understand.
July 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
But you can see why 😉
June 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
“The most hazardous building in the UK” from the Public Accounts Committee on decommissioning nuclear Sellafield. Delays to infrastructure build, failure to invest, unsafe, environmental hazard, escalating costs — familiar?
committees.parliament.uk/committee/12...
#Nuclear #Energy #Sellafield
June 7, 2025 at 6:07 AM
My last garden was on a sixties estate, bigger gardens than today. 15 yrs ago there were street trees, garden trees and almost every house had a garden front and back. Satellite view now shows ~60% concrete 😔. Mine went from 1 to 2 with a big increase in insects and birds
June 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Anyone looking for a narrowboat? 44’ thoughtful design to make the most of space, good quality build and well maintained, 5 years old and very lightly used, 250 engine hours. Perfect go anywhere leisure boat for one or two.
www.abnb.co.uk/boat?BoatID=...
#UKCanals #BoatsForSale #Narrowboat
May 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Excellent article on composting, including that the hardest items to home-compost are those labelled as 100% biodegradable. Don’t be misled by that greenwash! And that weed-killer survives composting 😱
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
May 12, 2025 at 6:07 AM
May 11, 2025 at 7:36 AM
#ThickTrunkTuesday a sweet chestnut just starting to break leaf.
April 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Britain: “the toxic poster child of Europe” exposing wildlife (and people!) to an increasingly “toxic soup of chemicals”
wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/news/nationa...
April 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
No mention of the more obvious millions too ill to work, due to failure to fund healthcare fully for fifteen years, or to respond to changing medical needs of an ageing population, or vaccinate all against covid and flu.
www.ft.com/content/1c2e...
March 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Illuminating from Harry Lambert, England’s jewels for sale, no matter the cost to culture or society, they’re just assets to strip
somethingdistilled.substack.com/p/this-land-...
March 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Yay, the man who might answer a question from the map that’s intrigued me: what are the vegetated rectangular enclosures along Figham Bank? (Red arrow)
February 22, 2025 at 9:40 AM
There’s a useful setting to remind you 😉
February 6, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Yay! Important day: sunrise before 8 and set after 4.30, even if the effect is obscured by gloomy murk, I know it’s there ☀️.
January 23, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Modest would be exaggeration for my local ‘murmuration’, I grieve for them being so few, valiantly following their instincts, and still giving pleasure
January 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Happy solstice. Margaret Atwood’s poem captures the importance of this day for me
December 21, 2024 at 4:07 PM