Dr Amy-Jane Beer

Jamie will be sorely missed this weekend at @kendalmountainfest.bsky.social, but it also provides an opportunity for us to remember him. Please chip in what you are able, and share this appeal as widely as you can. It would mean so much. #TeamJamie

Team Jamie! Help Bea Normington raise money to support Cumbria Wildlife Trust

Bea has come up with a way to honour Jamie which will do lasting good. Please visit her Just Giving page for @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social & @pancreaticcanuk.bsky.social, supporting the wildlife he loved, & fighting the bastard disease that stole him from us.
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Jamie was part of an extraordinary partnership. In his wife Bea he had not only a soulmate but an equal in spirit, intellect and personality. It’s hard to imagine two people who so thoroughly deserved the good fortune of meeting and marrying one another.

In the end he was taken brutally fast. And yet he remains undiminished. At his funeral, hearing him described in the words of friends, family, colleagues, & those he’d inspired, he became larger than life. I wondered how the did all that, but it was simply by being wholly himself.

In person, Jamie was as you might expect from his social media—curious, kind, irreverent, passionate… but also swearier, scattier, wiser and even funnier.

This time last year he told few of us he was seriously ill, but also that he was ‘undiminished’ & set on ‘wrestling the beast to the ground’.

Popping back for something important…

This is for those of you who knew & loved that golden human, Jamie Normington @movingslowly.bsky.social – and those who never met him but were amused, enlightened, touched by his gift for communication and compassion here and on Twitter.

An evening in celebration of the @righttoroam.bsky.social in Newcastle!

Music and talk at Cobalt Studios with Johnny Campbell, Lucy and Hazel, and @amyjanebeer.bsky.social

Who's in?

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The moment has come again for me to leave socials for a while. Still a few events here and there and I’ll post the odd story when there’s work to share but otherwise I’m off here now to write, write, write for a few months, maybe more.

Be well, see you in time x

#OldNows

Freedom to roam? What's next? @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social looks back - and ahead - here gritstonecoop.co.uk/gritblog/cam... Come and join us to hear more, Hebden Bridge Nov 29 @ramblers.org.uk @amyjanebeer.bsky.social

Our AGM on Saturday with an inspiring panel of speakers sharing their thoughts about how we could increase the reach and #inclusiveness of our charity's #campaigning work in the #YorkshireDalesNationalPark
Thank you to our President @amyjanebeer.bsky.social, Derek Twine and #MollySimmons

So kind Susannah, thank you ☺️

Very good news from the Darent… (etymological sister oak-river to the Derwents and the Dart)

Ha! He wouldn’t dare 😁

Oh that’s an early edition… Nick Hayes’ artwork looking very fine! so glad you enjoyed Joe, thank you 🙏

Country diary: Searching for sanctuary, we find something else entirely | Eben Muse Drakes Broughton, Worcestershire: The scourge of rural litter is enough to bring anyone together, even a farmer and us, trying to camp for the night in his field

Warm your cockles on this by @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social . A glimpse of something so reasonable and so possible, because this is how people really are when they give each other a chance: mutual respect and common interest for and with each other & the land. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A win that speaks volumes. Huge congratulations to the dear, brilliant and indefatigable Shrub, an absolute warrior for nature.

Swimmers and river lovers of Yorkshire! Rave On for the Avon is coming to York THIS THURSDAY 🏊🏻‍♀️💦💙

Please share…

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@righttoroam.bsky.social @yorkswildlife.bsky.social

This prize draw is generously supported by some of the cream of British nature writing.

A fiver to enter might win you books, art and other goodies.
That’s the ‘maybe’… the ‘definitely’ is that it will support our work to connect everyone in England and Wales with their nearby nature.

We had a brilliant time @deershed.bsky.social
in the Buckendz tent! Huge thanks to all who joined us for inspiring author events - including the amazing @righttoroam.bsky.social team with @amyjanebeer.bsky.social - Wainwright Prize winner and wild writing wonder
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#IndieBookshop #RightToRoam

Cover of my new book Ghosts of the Farm, out Sept 30th, with a lovely quote from Amy-Jane Beer.

Feeling a bit real now … lovely to have quotes like these from early readers … thank you @amyjanebeer.bsky.social #booksky

‘Outwitted’: have water companies managed to sidestep Labour’s bonus ban? Concerns loophole in 2025 act allows payouts at firms that repeatedly pollute England’s waterways with sewage

Brilliant investigation into the ways the water companies are outwitting government - bring water into public ownership now👇

Among yesterday's arrestees is Deborah Hinton, an 81-year old retired magistrate with an OBE.
That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist.
Language has been turned on its head.
The law has been turned on its head.
Murdering children is righteous.
Trying to stop it is terrorism.

I know the booking link looks like it’s for Norwich but click through and you’ll see the York showing is there.

Rave on for the Avon review – Bristol wild swimmers lead a joyful protest campaign Lovely documentary records the battle to protect a stretch of the polluted river and the beautiful bathing site it is defending

The film follows the activist swimmers of the Bristol Avon, campaigning for their right to swim and the right of their river to flow free and clean. An utter joy, for swimmers and non swimmers alike. Please share with your York area pals. 👆🏻🏊🏻‍♀️💦💙
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Green Screen: Rave On For The Avon + Live Panel | Showtimes and Tickets Norwich - Thursday 17th July + Live panel with The Rivers Trust and River Waveney Trust Host: Martha Meek - River Waveney Trust Samantha Wood & Peter Smith  - Cow Towe...

Delighted to have a part in bringing the brilliant #RaveOnForTheAvon to York City Screen & to be part of Q&A panel with director Charlotte Sawyer @yorkswildlife.bsky.social CEO @rachaelbice.bsky.social and swim guide Sarah Banks. Showing 4 Sept, book now!

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Honestly. Seems he’s one of the few bearers of light in that benighted place.

It is good news Chris. Thank you so much for your steadfast commitment.

Your annual reminder to reconsider ‘weeds’. The teasel, knapweed, ragwort, yarrow, vipers bugloss, wild marjoram burdock and valerian in my garden are all self-introduced and self-seeded and they are indisputably what make it hum.

Two men behind ‘senseless’ felling of Sycamore Gap tree jailed for more than four years Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, sentenced for act of criminal damage that sparked widespread sadness and anger

Reminder that, 10 years ago, Sheffield Council signed a PFI contract which led to the felling of thousands of mature street trees - mainly to save the contractor a few quid. It then took out injunctions against local residents protesting the felling and used arcane anti-union laws to lock them up.

Two men behind ‘senseless’ felling of Sycamore Gap tree jailed for more than four years Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, sentenced for act of criminal damage that sparked widespread sadness and anger

Ummm. Imagine such sentences for raptor persecution on a shooting estate, or for river pollution, habitat destruction or felling enacted by a farmer, large landowner, private company, council contractor or developer? What could POSSIBLY be the diffence I wonder? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...