#DistanceDrift Velvet textures of summer for 1st June

Tremendous to have a confluence (nice choice of group noun) of geographers in da house!

Thank you Rob for tonight’s conversation of deliberately meandering responses at RGS. A good opportunity for a modest confluence of geographers to meet up, listen, & talk shop - great evening. I have my copy & looking forward to an immersion, a few dips & the occasional paddle.

Attended a talk about ‘Sarn Helen’ as part of #Llandovery Wild Literature festival, by author Tom Bullough & Jackie Morris illustrator (of the book) author & artist. Began to read it & enjoying the ‘journey’ a lot! Poetic, heady words, animals nested in sacred geometry& painted in tonal hymns.

Thinking of you @attention2place.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Thinking through four elements with @attention2place.bsky.social Clarke & Witt #GAConf25 @geographicalassoc.bsky.social

Reflections for #DistanceDrift

What wonder-full education looks like! I’ve been gifted these booklets celebrating @attention2place.bsky.social work #WhispersofChalkStream as a community project & it’s glorious! Relational learning with & as part of #nature. ❤️

Anyone seen the #FullMoon tonight? We have damp cloudy skies sadly here in Kent. Find out why Prof. Justin Dillon calls it a #SquirrelMoon & why #EnvironmentalLunacy matters. naee.org.uk/environmenta...

#DistanceDrift #Imbolc #Springlight

#DistanceDrift Plenty of 12th night cheer here! #wassail

Hi everyone. EYPPC is new to BlueSky! We would love you to know about out #primary #geography CPD education webinars Sign up the next one below: www.ticketsource.co.uk/eyppc/t-rpok... and our CPD library: www.youtube.com/@geoglive882... Advice. Ideas. Inspiration!

Mapping & auditing local green spaces can be great fieldwork. At least 2 articles on cemeteries in #priGeogJounal too. #PrimaryGeography UK churchyards are havens for rare wildlife, finds conservation charity www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thanks for your interest and support . Best wishes for a year of happiness and health to all in 2025 x 😊💚🐶🦊🐭🐮🐸🐌🐞🐜🪲🐠🐟🐢🕸️🌲🪵🌿☘️🦆💧💙

The shortest day by Susan Cooper,illustrated by Carson Ellis. ‘Through all the frosty ages you can hear them . Echoing behind us - listen ! … as promise wakens in the sleeping land’ #WinterSolstice

Lovely afternoon @MottisfontNT for our Christmas gathering 😊🎅🏼

Merry Christmas from @Attention2place to those our new friends on Bluesky and those who follow us and support our work 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄. Look forward to seeing you in the New Year 🤶🏻🤶🏻

"These are essays written for a world in motion. Plants that, in dispersal, might teach us what it means to live in the wake of change." Loving this beautiful and engaging new book, DISPERSALS, by @jessicajlee.bsky.social

As in human societies, the transmission of knowledge is vital to animal cultures. The endangered Egyptian vulture depends on pre-migratory gatherings to share safe routes. With so few elders in the Balkans, juveniles often fly straight over the sea & perish there. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

More to learn here #ArtAdventCalendar #artists earthskyart.ca/artadventcal...

One of the best things about winter's minimalism is the way deciduous trees focus attention on form, texture & the relationship between branches & shards of sky. I'll be sharing some that warm my cockles in winter over the next few weeks. Have any of your favourites bared all yet? #trees #winter

Situation Networks: The emotions and activities that are central to nature-connectedness experiences www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Latest nature connection research: Key role of emotions Need for meaningful & deliberate engagement with nature Importance of inspiration & love Role of nostalgia & ‘beyond the moment’ narratives & traditions Disgust, boredom, & irritation get in the way findingnature.org.uk/2024/11/27/n...

Paying attention to local skies

Coexistence means making space—for wildlife, for forests, for rivers to flow freely. It’s not always easy, but it’s essential. What does coexistence mean to you? 🐾💚 #Coexistence #LivingTogether #PlanetWisdom

I visited the ‘Cathedral of the Pines’ at the National Pinetum in Sussex this weekend. The sculptural pillars of the trees, the diffuse silvery light through the pine needles & the tall narrow space drawing your eyes up to heaven, meant it really did have the timeless & sacred feel of a cathedral

It's almost St Andrew's Day. This blog post covers a broad range of outdoor suggestions. I'm sure you may have your own ideas too creativestarlearning.co.uk/rme-outdoors... #UKEd #EduSkyPrimary #EduSky #KS1 #KS2 #forestschool #RME #Scottish #Scotland #StAndrew

Learning of Place and building emotional connection on foot and with imagination #walkingcurriculum www.educationthatinspires.ca/walking-curr...

This is a lovely interview with Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Gathering Moss, Braiding Sweetgrass, and a fine new book on the gift economy, The Serviceberry. emergencemagazine.org/interview/pr...

Just had the most unexpected nature experience: opened my boat hatch to see an otter frolicking in the Roding, in the willow directly opposite. Slightly hard to believe that there could be an otter in Barking, but I managed to get a video of what would appear to be the most urban otter in London!

@roddi33.bsky.social Lovely to see you here 😊

this is so great - THANK YOU @graffegbooks.bsky.social for donating to the Hedgehog Society ... go on - grab a copy and help a #hedgehog ... and don't forget to tune in to the Infinite Monkey Cage! @robinince.bsky.social @profbriancox.bsky.social Pam Ayres, Sophie LR and me!

Sharing ‘The World to come’ @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social, Johnny Flynn and Emily Sutton ‘Singing as the river flows’ - chalk stream celebrations at Busy Bees Pre School, Bishop’s Sutton as they wear chalk stream waistcoats for the first time #Whispersofchalkstream #WatercressandWinterbournes .

Winnie the Pooh knows this oak In between the village of Hartfield & Christopher Robin Milne’s childhood home They would walk past it on their way to the Hundred Acre Wood (the Ashdown Forest), Pooh Sticks Bridge & the other places in the books Yes, they all actually exist

Delighted to share our #whispersofchalkstream project adventures with Bishop’s Sutton WI last night #women’sinstitute Wonderful participation, crafts and river making and lovely company. Thank you for making us so welcome 🤗 #WatercressandWinterbournes

To say: my profile pic is a LiDAR image showing the river-ghosts—historical meanders—of the Lower Mississippi. Water, wandering, wilfully. It’s by Daniel Coe, who has deep-mapped the pasts of many rivers. See more of his work at dancoecarto.com/work & below. What wild, wondrous beings rivers are.

We have a starting pack of walking artists. Let us know whom we missed. go.bsky.app/AMt7mHx

Hello! We're currently setting in and finding our way around, it is lovely to see so many brilliant people here. We're looking forward to sharing news and updates from the Centre for Place Writing at Manchester Met very soon. www.mmu.ac.uk/about-us/fac...

Fantastic #primarygeography in the woods today, mapping the stream habitats, flow and erosion and deposition. It was a fantastic experience for the Year 6 and for me!

If you haven't seen it, Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story really is worth the time. Stunning filming and gentle storytelling. Magic. silverbackfilms.tv/shows/billy-...

Ginkgos are spectacularly on the turn rn: gold-on-blue above, chrome-yellow fallen fans below. Ginkgo biloba is a profoundly ancient species. The group of trees it belongs to pre-dates the dinosaurs. These trees watched us arrive—and they will watch us leave. Send Ginkgo-photos if you’re so minded.

Never allow yourself to outgrow whimsy, instead embrace it with the same childlike sense of wonder that makes you hold tight to the belief that the world can be magical. You just have to be brave enough.

@sandracaustin.bsky.social Lovely to see you here 😊

And more added to the "Play (and space/place/the city/urban/public space)" pack too; again, please let me know if you want to be added, or have suggestions: go.bsky.app/L5k2dxk

Colourful river braids in south-east #Iceland - the yellow vegetation is some kind of moss - it's everywhere :) #DronePhotography #DJIMavic3Pro

Ginko leaves @gilbertwhites.bsky.social

Welcome to London #Paddington #pigeongeographies

I love this hawthorn festooned with garlands of lichen next to a ruined ancient settlement on Ugborough Moor, Dartmoor. A clootie marker of ecological wonder in an otherwise nature bereft landscape.

Me in @placesjournal.bsky.social : “Repair can help us move beyond the ideas of techno-solutionist decarbonization that tend to dominate tech industry greenwashing + to look instead at practices, institutions + architectures that can extend the lives of systems through refurbishment + repurposing”

Hi Julie Helen and I have been collaborating with chalk stream this year. River Arle, Bishop’s Sutton has been an inspiration for ‘whispers of chalk stream ‘ - an intergenerational, hyperlocal community project. #WatercressandWinterbournes