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AMo
Apr 20, 202312 min read
This land belongs to ...
As hacks everywhere know, it's good to start with an attention-grabbing and provocative statement, so here's one. I don't like 'the outdoors
AMo
Jun 13, 20213 min read
Fragments: the ocean's edge
The Hebrides’ arc is a pummelled shield; the continent’s first and last. The ancient foundations are laid bare, three billion years’...
AMo
Jun 13, 20211 min read
Fragments: riverside
A dash of motion, then a bump. I braked to a stop, and looked in the wing mirror. A small brown body was unmoving in the verge. No, not...
AMo
Jun 13, 20213 min read
Fragments: in wet snow
In the desert, nothing moved. For weeks, only a rare car or truck scrawling dust, the sun giving shadows slow chase. We travelled far to...
AMo
Jul 13, 20201 min read
The bill
Busy waiters, back and forth with orders queue in silent squabble on quartz folds, then dispatch on frantic wings over froth and green...
AMo
Nov 5, 20193 min read
Wilderness
Many journey through this bleak expanse, but few share with their fellow travellers a word or a glance; their eyes are glazed windows on spi
AMo
Jul 21, 20197 min read
Above the overlap
I always thought of herons as silent and solitary birds. Last night on the Åbyfjord in Bohuslän, I scrambled to a promontory above the...
AMo
Mar 8, 20195 min read
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I guess it always happens fast, otherwise it wouldn't happen. I haven't crashed a car before, not properly, at speed. It reminded me a...
AMo
Feb 17, 201911 min read
Notes on a Small Van Conversion
It is a truth universally acknowledged that everybody wants a live-in vehicle. Baby boomers with a pension want a fibreglass kitchen...
AMo
Nov 26, 20181 min read
On Slate
Elidir’s unmade face floats, upturned in the lake - the body is water, glass-like, land-filled. The legs drive blood by pulsing tunnels,...
AMo
Nov 9, 20181 min read
A note on the following content
Yes, it's a blog about a blog. All of the pieces older than this one, which appear to have been written in an extraordinary burst of...
AMo
Nov 9, 201816 min read
Zeit
Summer drains the last of its energy, browning the bracken and plumping blackberries. There will be no grandstand peroration for the...
AMo
Nov 9, 20189 min read
In Fairness
"In the morning the effects of the Grey Man's curse were sufficiently plain; rocks had been detached that no earthly power could move,...
AMo
Nov 9, 20184 min read
Pebbles
I needed to get lonely. I was full reeling drunk, caught out by those last three or two shots, doing my unlevel best to walk a straight...
AMo
Nov 9, 201811 min read
La République
You were in the Alps. Was it good? Yeah, it was good, but… For no obvious reason, I spent the first few days in Chamonix swaying between...
AMo
Nov 9, 20185 min read
American Tales: Hot Tub Cougar
Just outta Bridgeport, there's some hot springs up a dirt track behind the ranger office. Real nice spot. Great views over the mountains...
AMo
Nov 9, 20184 min read
Triptych
In the month before Christmas, I got to know a segment of paved ground outside Morrisons in a town called Rothwell, near Leeds. It was a...
AMo
Nov 9, 20184 min read
The Zone
Violence sweeps through the Zone, wave after wave, leaving rainbows. These are not the only conspiracy of the rain and light to capture...
AMo
Nov 9, 20183 min read
Dream Liberator
Here’s a feeling I’d forgotten, a summer sensation with a twist of the mystic, not a thing at all maybe – but it brings a strange...
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