Sturgeon, the Ecophilosoher's fish. 🦈💫
My latest blog & PhD. excerpt.
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#Rivering #Rivers #Place #Literature #Biesbosch #WyeLove #Fluminism #Symbioethics #EnvironmentalEthics #Autoethnography #PhD #NonFiction #Miratics #Dayatics #TheBookseller
#Symbioethics and #Fluminism are not central to our culture, and yet they could be. They are how life really thrives.
#WyeLove
Today, I am writing about a very rare aquatic lichen that I am lucky to know very well from my home stretch. #WyeLove wales-lichens.org.uk/species-account/collema-...
Sorry. I feel both vindicated but also ignored - dedicated to this cause for a very long time. I am relieved about the boom in attention now, but also baffled by this obsession with testing and regulatory power/enforcement. This is about all of us. Need to take a break! #WyeLove
Why do we need centralised permission? Council and landowners can do it anyway. Residents and businesses, let's support them in any way we can. #WyeLove www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford...
#WyeLove #RiverWye #RiverArrow #humandisturbance #ecologies
Ghosts, introducing anthroturbs. seasonalight.com/2021/03/10/ghosts-inrodu...
White #surfactant and #phosphate foam, Hereford sewage works outfall. "Legal" levels, apparently. #wyelove
In the Summer, when it's warm over a few days, you do find algae growing in shallow pools but not like this right across the river. #WyeLove
Quiet picnic spot for me and a broadbodied chaser. Idyllic? Buzzards mewing, bees buzzing, trout leaping (for air). Water is pea green soup. I would not even paddle in it. #WyeLove
Many places along this stretch unprotected from cattle in the water. Strong smell of ammonia here...high algal burden, not far from an agricultural college. #WyeLove
Chapter Severn – The Mouth – Deus Ex Machina seasonalight.com/2021/07/22/chapter-sever...
On Capitalism and plot flaws, and more still. #Nature #Place #SevernEstuary #WyeLove
Please don't underestimate the power of education. Getting local people to care about river life, how it all functions and adapts, how it is disturbed, and of course polluted and killed so this can be avoided. Celebrating ecological beauty. #rivercide #WyeLove
Protecting the interconnected lives that are "rivers" requires our understanding and care, especially with a more volatile climate. #WyeLove #Fluminism
About 40-50 coarse fishermen from the Great Western Way through town and south to Canary Bridge. That's a lot of hooks and line (and fish pain). #JustSaying #WyeLove
Got a dose of clinical depression, friends, for the first time in my life. But I'm getting help. Meanwhile, the two of us took shelter in the cathedral cloisters... 100m in from the river bank. #RiparianZones #Mayflies #MH #WyeLove
Of all the beauties to share my Fentimans bottle, it had to be you. #Mayflies #WyeLove #HerefordCathedral #cloisters
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I'm standing at Hereford's main sewer outfall again (glamorous, I know) and the smell of detergent is overpowering. Tawny owl above somewhere! Just heard a call. #WyeLove
Rather special day. This is the first time I've seen where the Wye joins the Severn and onwards into the Severn Sea. I watched old man heron fly and hunt along the shore at low tide. #WyeLove
Honestly, a place where kids drink when it's dry and sand martins hunt above the water for their tiny winged prey. #sssi #WyeLove #birds #rivers
I needed big skies, and I found them. Sometimes, openness is the mood. #WyeLove
Special to have strong support for what I am doing here.
Wonderful rangy conversation too, from pipe organ base notes to "writing is thought," vampires to flying high with red kites. #WyeLove
One of the oddest little buildings in Herefordshire, neo-Romansque church at Hoarwithy designed by Seddon, who also worked on Llandaff Cathedral. Inside is closed for renovations, but I enjoyed the light here. #WyeLove #GothicRevival #Architecture
Communing with a baby dipper. #WyeLove
