Category: writing
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Earthquake, Lundy: A Place Where Stories rise from the cracks.
Walking to Earthquake on Lundy Island reveals dramatic granite fissures, hidden letterboxes and stories layered in the landscape. Discover this unique place on Lundy’s wild west coast.
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Uncovering The Cheeses: Geology and Exploration on Lundy
A reflective walk on Lundy Island’s west coast, exploring The Cheeses — a dramatic granite landscape shaped by weather, movement, and embodied walking.
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Heathcliff’s Influence: Lundy’s Dramatic Landscape
The upcoming film adaptation of Wuthering Heights evokes nostalgia for the wild Yorkshire moors, reminding one of the similar landscapes of Lundy. The emotional connection to these dramatic terrains enhances the appreciation of Brontë’s work, illustrating how environment profoundly affects our feelings and experiences.
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Walking ‘Up North’ on Lundy – a comparative journey
A reflective walking blog exploring a journey to the North End of Lundy Island, weaving together memory, identity, and shifting ideas of what it means to go “up North.”
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Portrait of an Island : Lundy’s Evolving places
Walking with a book mobilises it, releasing the author’s words back into the landscape. Following Langham’s route from Millcombe to the High Street, this walk drifts between archive and anecdote, history and habit. It is a reflection on walking as a cultural practice, shaped as much by weather, work, and community as by the paths…
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Finding Balance at Twixmas on Lundy
That strange, softened time between Christmas and New Year — when days blur and you finally have space to breathe — feels familiar on Lundy. Here, that ‘Twixmas’ feeling isn’t confined to one week of the year. It’s a way of living. Through walking, weather, and uneven ground, the island continually asks for balance: not…
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Lundy – A home from a distance
At the moment, I’m on the mainland, in my house on the North Devon coast. It feels odd looking out towards Lundy as from here it’s just a rock out at sea. It is strange as it does not feel like an island I live on! When I am at home on the mainland, I…
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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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Adapting to Island Life: Embracing Winter
A reflective account of coming back to Lundy as winter approaches, shaped by cold-water swimming, storms, harvest food, and the island’s changing pace.