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Sailing

Mar 8, 2017
1 min

Avanto, Ypykkälampi

Visiting the ice hole this morning felt a little like returning to some kind of sacred site, it felt special, treasured. The surface was ...

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Mar 2, 2017
1 min

Good Morning!

Rumour has it one of these Spruce's can hold up to 2500kg of snow! As I sit here looking out the studio window I've just seen one drop a ...

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Feb 24, 2017
0 min

Persistant silent bleating

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Feb 13, 2017
0 min

The Easterly winds came

It cut harsh, bitter, straight to the bone

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Feb 12, 2017
0 min

It cut harsh, bitter, straight to the bone

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Feb 10, 2017
1 min

Words from... 'The Iceburg'

I've been reading a lot just lately. In 'A Winter Book', Tove Jansson (who wrote the Moomin's) writes in 'The Iceberg'... "But all the sa...

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Jan 17, 2017
1 min

I want to see hell in the landscape

'Everyone smiles fat smiles at the big green carpet.' Edward Burne-Jones had written, 'but I like other landscapes better, and now and th...

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Dec 21, 2016
1 min

It's Winter! (again)

It's the first day of winter, according to the astronomical calendar today, with is also the day of the winter solstice. Astronomical win...

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Dec 3, 2016
1 min

Sensory Overdrive

I love the darkness for the heightened awareness it gives you. Tonight both dark above and below the surface, my senses were in overdrive...

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Dec 1, 2016
1 min

Frozen Mymbyr

It's not often I can't swim, but I couldn't even break the ice on the edge of Llynnau Mymbyr this evening as the sun was going down. It w...

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