Tom Pritchard

Noticed that the swifts have left Ventnor when I laid in bed this morning without this sort of non-stop silliness. Roll on next summer. ☀️🌊

Something in The Salt Path always felt 'off' to me, but I was waiting for someone to prove that the walk itself never happened, I think.

Such good journalism. And so interesting re: the relationship between walker-writers and their work, bullshitting the bullshitters, non-fiction and 'true' stories, publisher appetites etc etc...

Brilliant brilliant brilliant 👏 🙌 🌿

WE WON!

The Supreme Court has upheld the right to wild camp on Dartmoor. This is a huge win for access to nature.

But we're just getting started.

It was never just about Dartmoor.

We’re fighting to extend the right to roam, swim, and sleep under the stars - across all of England.

Dartmoor case set to decide future of wild camping Hikers can pitch a tent under the stars on the moor without permission, but for how much longer?

"Win or lose in the Supreme Court, we now want the government to step up and pass a right to roam act, to protect and extend public rights of access to nature across England.”

@lewis-winks.bsky.social ahead of this morning’s verdict on wild camping on Dartmoor:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cheers! 🍻

This made me want to carouse in the great mead hall of my people and toast the swifts' return with a drinking horn. Thanks for it, @nicwilson.bsky.social!

A pleasure Patrick, cheers!

And I've loved this song for 15 years -- what a night to hear it!

A real joy to be at the launch of 'Is A River Alive?' tonight, with my supervisor and friend @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social and a room full of brilliant and interesting people. Viva la riva! 🌊🌿

You're so right about the 'art' in his writing too -- super visual, and the language of the place so dense and baroque. And his names are so good, like tiny cameo portraits in themselves. So strange and crumbly and vivid, all of it.

Oh man, I love love love this book, and Gormenghast. Wild to think this could have been THE blueprint for what fantasy looked like if JRR hadn't had the stranglehold (and broader appeal/clear moral arcs/actual magic etc etc).

Year 23, somehow, of the Easter Monday palgrimage to St Albans.

More convinced than ever that the answer to all of that (*gestures widely at the world*) is to grab some old pals and do a big walk. 🙏

Looking forward to seeing The Robs talk about The North Road at Cambridge Literary Fest next week -- join me if you're about!

🎟 👉 www.cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/events/rob-c...

T-shirt weather, abandoning the laptop for a big loop walk along the coast, and coming alive like a houseplant at the feel of some actual sun. March is good, isn't it?

My grandma was the gardener. This is a poem my grandad wrote about watching her potter about in their garden.

"Everything is at is should be,
As everything ever has been."

Oh yes -- intimidatingly good.

Wonderful things, JP! Nice to find you on here, too.

Appreciate the Glück poem isn't really about snowdrops, but I always think of it around now. And of my grandparents, and my grandma saying 'well Arth, we've made it through another winter' when the snowdrops and aconites came up in their garden. An odd and interesting little node of connections.

Setting this as an Out Of Office for my paid work while I'm getting stuck into my PhD work. (From @golden_frog_inn on instagram)

Love this, Peter! And can imagine the 'feedback' from the chefs!

Love a bit of Sebaldian melancholy with my coffee.

Happy Tuesday, all. Life slopes downwards toward decay and entropy. Former glories are lies. Dressing gowns are flammable.

👍 👴 🔥

Watched the day disappear around the neighbours' house over 15 minutes this evening.

Slàinte mhath, all! 🥃

... it was not. Knocked me over and ran off without so much as a thank you.

Loved the vision and variation of Glenn Ligon's 'All Over the Place' at the Fitzwilliam -- and if you think museums are for nerds, you can see 'Waiting for the Barbarians' (nine English translations of the closing lines of Cavafy's poem) without even having to step inside. Great stuff.

An old friend, a flask of coffee, and a few miles in the frost before work this morning.

Will read with interest in my tea break Marek, thanks!

‘Get on my land’: the farmers who want strangers wandering their fields A growing number of landholders are joining forces with right-to-roam campaigners to boost public access to the countryside

Great stuff on @righttoroam.bsky.social as a way for farmers to reconnect with their communities, poss Defra incentivising of access etc -- far from a farmer vs walker binary.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...