Kirsty Fox

Women+ Writing Nature 🧙‍♀️
With Kirsty Fox 🦊
Online creative writing course
3 weeks
From Sunday 2nd November
10.30-12.30 GMT
All genders welcome provided you're comfortable reading women's writing and up for dismantling the patriarchy 🌿🍄🦋
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Women+ Writing Nature
Online creative writing workshop, 3 weeks starting Sun 2nd Nov, 10.30am GMT
With Kirsty Fox (me!)
Early bird price £35
All genders welcome 🏳️‍⚧️

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In the latest episode of Hope in the Rising Tide, I chat to James Canton about his new book 'Renaturing' and the difference between large scale rewilding and what us little guys can do.

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Episode 8 of Hope in the Rising Tide podcast is now live.
Small ways to wild the world - an interview with James Canton about his new book Renaturing.
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Selfie of Kirsty with headphones on, sat next to a computer set up for editing audio files.

Book cover of Renaturing: Small ways to wild the world by James Canton

Back in the studio editing the next podcast today. I had an excellent chat with James Canton last week about his book 'Renaturing' and how this differs from large scale rewilding.

Can't wait to share it with you 🌱🦔🦋

#hopeintherisingtidepod

Changeable weather. The turn of the year 🍂🌦

Restoration scheme begins at 10,000-year-old Bingley North Bog Bingley North Bog is one of eight locations in the Bradford Pennine Gateway National Nature Reserve.

Bog restoration near Bradford ☀️🌱💚

#goodclimatenews
#hopeintherisingtide

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All about Auks and Orkney On the trail of an extinct seabird and its living relatives

New episode of Hope in the Rising Tide podcast.

All about Auks and Orkney: on the trail of an extinct seabird and its living relatives
With Jonathan Ford (Papay Ranger)
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Stoat cull credited with rise in Orkney curlew numbers - BBC News A mass eradication of the non-native mammals is believed to have helped the wading bird population recover.

Positive news...

Orkney stoat cull has helped curlew numbers bounce back. Stoats are an invasive species on mainland Orkney which also threaten the existence of Orkney Vole.
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I put a note out for the postie and this gorgeous Herald Moth decided it was a great place nap 😴 🧡

Cat on lap, blocking open notebook (laid on top of open book).

PhD helper 🐱 positioning herself just where my elbow needs to be in order to write.

Currently writing about extinction (grim), more specifically how ill-equipped we are to handle the thought of it.

First bloomings at the wild allotment. Coltsfoot and red deadnettle have been emerging from crevices all over the place. The snakeshead fritillary in my bog garden is making its debut.

Also there's a neglected baby hedge which I think is olive - this gets overgrown by nettles in summer.

Country diary: A tiny wildflower meadow with bespoke bee habitats | Kate Bradbury Hove, East Sussex: Last spring was a washout, but this year – after a few home improvements – my garden is buzzing

My turn on the Country Diary - on bees and tiny meadows: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Important statement from @kentwildlife.bsky.social about the way that the government is deliberately misrepresenting what has happened at Ebbsfleet.

I can also see the crema has formed its own tears. Even the coffee weeps for you.

Pretty convenient since I'm writing a chapter about the Great Auk and it's surviving kin.

If you need a little hope boost, Episode 6 is now live. Booming Bitterns and the reedbed habitat that supports them with Joseph Klein from RSPB Leighton Moss.

Link in bio or go to hopeintherisingtide.substack.com
(We are also on S p o t i f y)

#HopeInTheRisingTide
#naturepodcast

If you need a little hope boost, Episode 6 is now live. Booming Bitterns and the reedbed habitat that supports them with Joseph Klein from RSPB Leighton Moss.

Link in bio or go to hopeintherisingtide.substack.com
(We are also on S p o t i f y)

#HopeInTheRisingTide
#naturepodcast

Handsome chappie 👨

🌼☀️🐛 Gorgeous day at the allotment. Made a start on a willow arch. Currently it's old/dead whips but I'm going to add some young ones too, so it becomes a living arch.

#allotment460
#wildlifegardening

How can you treat your pet for fleas without harming nature? With studies showing flea treatments can damage rivers and kill baby birds, experts suggest other options

How can you treat your pet for fleas without harming nature?
With studies showing flea treatments can damage rivers and kill baby birds, experts suggest other options..

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Life is currently a bit complicated and overwhelming but the writing and reading keeps me grounded. It is a constant (like my cat bae) in otherwise changeable weather.

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#MemoirOfTheTides #naturewriting

Honestly I love it. Even though writing about grief (and ecocide) is an endless emotional toil, there is something satisfying in making sense of things. A post-mortem on the self. And ultimately I'm writing towards hope and wonder, and attempting to ellicit these things in the reader.
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Instead I'm combing through notebooks for all the existing treasure I have: poems, fragments, journal vignettes. And all the many bookmarked pages in my endless stacks of half-read books. And then I'm turning a patchwork of lyric and ideas into chapters/essays.
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Blue notebook with avocet illustration on and the Lomond Guide to Seashore Life book.

So my PhD project Memoir of the Tides is progressing well. I'm not spending as much time on the seashore as I'd like but as with beachcombing, if I was there I'd be constantly going on side-quests when I spot the next shiny thing (pebble, fossil, shell).
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#morecambebaysketchclub meet every month to walk and #draw together and with Morecambe Bay (Arnside today). It’s been an absolute pleasure to bring this group together and so good for my well-being over the winter! It is a no hierarchy group where drawing is kindness…
#art #community #drawing

A pale green pollen haze around a hazel tree full of catkins.

It's carnival season in the hazel groves.

Episode 5 of Hope in the Rising Tide is now live. Many thanks to @ljbees.bsky.social for sharing their expertise on all things bugs & crawlies 🐌🐛🐝🕷🦋

E5 Turn your fear into fascination: Myth-busting our creepy-crawly friends

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If you don't know what a dead hedge is, here's a handy guide.
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Tiny honeysuckle plant next to mossy wood and twig piles.

Close up of moss leaves and spores.

Planted some wild honeysuckle at the allotment today. Hoping it will grow up over the "dead hedge" which I made for frens 🦔🐸🪲🕷🐦

Bonus picture of moss seed heads waiting to spore.

#wildgardening #deadhedge