Category: Walking Artist
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The Mystique of Lundy’s Unique Landscape
Small Islands across the globe have long held a mystique, sometimes becoming sites of religious, spiritual or supernatural exception. Johnson, H., (2024) I recently read an article by Henry Johnson (2024) about religious or spiritual places. It made me think about how Lundy doesn’t show itself as a spiritual place. It doesn’t announce itself in…
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A Walk Through Lundy’s Quarries and a link to Portland, Dorset.
On Summer days, when the sun sits high and clean above Lundy, the island glows. The granite shines, Mica and Feldspar glinting black and white. It is the quality of this Lundy granite that led to the creation of the Lundy Granite Company in 1863. Although there is little sun today at the end of…
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How Wind Shapes Life on Lundy
A North Easterly wind has been blowing over the island this week. It feels that winter has most definitely arrived. The wind here isn’t like wind on the mainland, it feels more dramatic, feeling like a force you negotiate with. In my last blog post, I wrote of fog and how it can bring the…
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Lundy’s Mystical Fog: A Weather Experience
Life on Lundy Island in fog: walking, swimming, delayed travel and historic shipwrecks, showing how weather defines the island experience
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World Postcard day -Wendy Mitchell Memorial
To celebrate world postcard day on 1st October, I have placed some specially designed postcards in the Wendy Mitchell letterbox. These postcards have been designed especially for world postcard day by Sharon Read, who also designed and created the current Lundy stamp collection. Sharon and I thought it was apt to place them in this…
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Exploring the Saints Way: A Journey Through History and Faith
A pilgrimage along the Saints way from Padstow to Fowey.
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Celebrating National Letter Writing Day from Lundy Island
“Celebrating National Letter Writing Day from Lundy Island—postcards, geocaches, and the 80 Postcard Project meet global connections through Postcrossing.”
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At the Edge of the World: Lundy and Finisterre
Sitting on the West Coast of Lundy, I often feel I am at the edge of the world. The horizon is wide, the Atlantic rolls out before me in shifting shades of blue, depending on the light. Here on the cliffs’ edgelands, I try to find an escape from an easterly wind. With the sound…
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Discovering Yarrow: Nature’s Fragrant Healer
Discover yarrow on Lundy Island and how wildflowers shape walking, seasons and sensory experience in this reflective island journal.