Category: Local Culture

  • Rural Futuring

    Rural Futuring

    ‘I want to believe in it. I want to go on believing in it. ButI cannot quite yet. Because we haven’t yet arrived. We are still undeniably at the bridge. The liminal chaos clings to our garments and clouds our vision. We must move. We must create this future. We must create it before we…

  • Unfollowed

    Unfollowed

    I’m concerned by groupthink and getting trapped in an intellectual bubble where my own opinions are reflected back to me. To counter that I read across the political spectrum, and on social media I follow people who have differing perspectives on the world. On Twitter this has always included people whose views I strongly disagree…

  • Beneath the Seawall, the Beach of Dreams

    Beneath the Seawall, the Beach of Dreams

    Last Sunday I participated in a stage of Beach of Dreams, walking between Bradwell Waterside and Burnham-on-Crouch. Beach of Dreams is an art project initiated by Ali Pretty of Kinetika, it’s a collaborative 500-mile walk between Lowestoft and Tilbury

  • VIDEO: Estuary Bioregionalism

    VIDEO: Estuary Bioregionalism

    Estuary Festival have now uploaded the recording of my May 23rd 2021 talk for Focal Point Gallery on ‘Estuary Bioregionalism’. Those who have attended a Permaculture Design Course I’ve worked on in the last few years or been at the Bioregionalism workshop I hosted at the UK Permaculture Convergence in Manchester will find a lot…

  • Refill Burnham & The Plastic Problem

    I just attended the launch event for the ‘Refill Burnham & The Plastic Problem’ exhibition at Burnham-On-Crouch & District Museum opened today by town mayor Wendy Stamp and councillor Vanessa Bell. It’s an exhibition about both problems and solutions.

  • Dark Horse

    It was great to catch the Dark Horse Morris group from Maldon at the Queen’s Head pub in Burnham last night. It couldn’t me more convenient for us (that’s our house peering over the ivy in the photo above).