Peatlands Way

Picture story of the 50 mile circular Peatlands Way walk     in South Yorkshire and North East Lincolnshire can be found here. The walk takes in the Humberhead Peatlands – the largest complex of lowland raised peat bogs in the country and well off the beaten track.

Georgia

Picture story of three week trip through Georgia can be found here

Feat: pipeline politics, animal sacrifices near the Chechen border and Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed

Crosby Beach in the Stuck Summer

The rubble extends the land
Spills out onto the beach like no longer legal tender from under a mattress of green grass
Lintels, colonnades, vitreous tiles, bricks from Accrington and Flintshire
Merchants mansions, warehouses, profitable enterprises
All the bombsites and slum clearances of the North
The bonfires on the brick dust plains crackle
All Unbuilded here

Sea softened house bricks like half sucked lozenges
Neutered irresolute projectiles
Fired plankton regurgitated by doubting whales
Bricks like a million unrecorded thoughts, intents, projects
The residue of burnt out neurons
Bricks that can’t build boxes

Turbines slice the fat air
Lack vanity
Like bicycle spokes
Scandinavia she said
Our lady of the sea

Jellyfish fall upwards – fuse with the sand
infected
Great lesions of rust

In the walled gardens
The boosters boost the boosters
Unfurl their exquisite antennae
Exchange
Tend and succour new words
Write words everywhere
Unveil statues, murals

The city becomes a museum of itself
Feasts on its own memories
Healed by the memory of itself
Quiets its phantom limb
Makes itself invisible

A walk from the centre of Bradford to the top of Baildon Moor

The walk can be found here

where our stuff comes from…

It’s not made by the pixies – but it comes from secluded places, so distant, that it might as well have been made by Martian pixie robots.

From one big shed with no windows to a container ship to another big shed with no windows. And then it appears – like magic.

In a wired world it’s mysterious how little we know about where our stuff comes from. Even though we don’t want to know.

But maybe one days these firewalls will start to burn up. The people who make the stuff we email with will email us. And in the meantime some people are following the empty containers back to China…

Where our stuff comes one: Mr Daisey and the Apple Factory

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/454/mr-daisey-and-the-apple-factory

Where our stuff comes from two: Manufactured landscapes

A walk from Filey to Bridlington via Flamborough Head

My 47th birthday in 47 pictures of a twenty more or so walk from Filey to Bridlington via Flamborough head

Withernsea and Spurn Point

Photostory of a trip to Withernsea and Spurn Point