"It’s an ancient kinship, this connection I feel to rocks and stones. They stand witness to repeated human passage, waypoints in the landscape, marked across millennia."

New post on my blog 😁

#PlaceWriting #LandscapeHistory #StandingStones #StoneCircles #AncientSites #NomadicHearts #photography #creativenonfiction

https://2ruth.blog/2026/06/02/an-ancient-kinship/

'Lark song accompanies us through most of the walk; in the woodland sections, tits — long-tailed, blue, great — call. A lone fieldfare is perched in an oak tree... We talk sporadically, about plot tangles, about the birds, about what we can see.' #placewriting #writing

https://mlthorpeauthor.substack.com/p/this-writers-diary-10-weeks

'Over the years of coming here, the stories told by my father, of the ‘bungalow’ on the shore at Snettisham; of banging on the windows of The Feathers hotel on the way to school, or, later, getting off the train that took him to grammar school in Lynn at Wolferton, to run (or wander) home across the fens have blended with my own memories and knowledge.' #placewriting #writing

https://mlthorpeauthor.substack.com/p/this-writers-diary-ten-weeks

This is the first in a series of witchy field notes, free to read at my blog. This one is all about bog cotton, near-forgotten goddesses and fen-related needle craft.

https://open.substack.com/pub/allysonshaw/p/needlecraft-of-bog-hall #witch #orkney #scotland #folklore #bog #landscape #PlaceWriting #Plants #wildflower #blogger #knitting #spinning #sockknitting #KnittingHistory #FibreArts

Absolutely love this from @Uniformbooks

I'm always excited by stuff that commemorates humdrum provincial locations, and Ian Waites does this wonderfully. The restrained tone is what does it - reminiscence should avoid self-indulgence - and the image repro is stunning.

#books #bookstodon #psychogeography #placewriting #uniformbooks #modernism #planning #architecture #gainsborough #lincolnshire