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Happy New Year! New Years can be exciting times, marking new beginnings, a clean page, awakening dormant dreams and ambitions. However, sometimes it is not always like that. This year, in particular, many face the new year with trepidation, filled with anxieties, a sense of being overwhelmed and unable to cope. 
What do we do when the future looks dark?

*Please note that this episode candidly discusses issues of mental health*  

Journal entry:

4th January, Wednesday.

"Silver light on Cotswold stone.
 The raucous clamour of rook song
 over sedge and bog grass.
 The wind is filled with flung bird
 and winter sounds.

Damp gusts bully down alleyways.
 That particular smell you get on entering an art shop.
 Outside the pavements glisten
 with the darkness of the sky." 

Episode Information:

In this episode I read the opening to Minnie Louise Haskin’s (1912) poem ‘God Knows’ [often called ‘The gate of the year’].

I also refer to Bede’s (ca.627 CE) account of King Edwin’s conversation and the lesson of the sparrow from his Ecclesiastical History of the English People Book 2 Chap 13.

Vanessa’s beautiful Mindful Narrowboat vlog can be viewed here: The Mindful Narrowboat.
The episode featuring the Hatton Flight can be viewed here: #131: Narrowboating towards Birmingham.

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General Details

In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. 

Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

All other audio recorded on site. 

Contact
For pictures of Erica and images related to the podcasts or to contact me, follow me on:

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It’s Christmas Eve and the perfect time for a canal-side story. Have you ever heard of the Christmas Heron? No? Well, there’s probably a very good reason for that, but I will tell it to you anyway. So, curl up in your special armchair by the stove and I will tell you all about the Christmas Heron.

Journal entry:                       

24th December, Saturday (Christmas Eve).

“Christmas Eve dawns with a silvered light.
 The canal is mirror calm.

A choir of rook song.
 A lone swan flying south.
 The cormorant, cruciform, ornaments the ash.

Tinsel ribbons of memories stream away into
 the distant Christmases of my childhood.”

 Episode Information:

In this episode I sample the following recordings:

‘Harsh cries by one Grey Heron’ recorded by ‘Dobroide’ near Caño de Guadiamar, Doñana National Park (Spain): https://freesound.org/people/dobroide/sounds/65264/ 

Swans in flight recorded by ‘Dibko’: https://freesound.org/people/dibko/

For more information about Nighttime on Still Waters

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General Details

In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. 

Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

All other audio recorded on site. 

Contact
For pictures of Erica and images related to the podcasts or to contact me, follow me on:

• Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpod
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/NoswPod

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I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message using the voicemail facility by clicking on the microphone icon. 

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Join us around the stove tonight, on a very cosy NB Erica that is currently ice-locked into a frozen landscape, as we think about the Fimbulwinter of old, and why Midwinter might be mid-winter after all!

Journal entry:

 14th December, Wednesday.

“Ridges of frost form ribs on the sweep of hills.
 Two rooks throw calls against a sky
 Marbled by the setting sun.
 Beyond the horizon, a pheasant startles a distant wood.
 My fingers and toes burn.

Episode Information:

In this episode I read very short extracts from:
Christiane Ritter’s beautiful A Woman in the Polar Night republished in 2019 Pushkin Press.
Christina Rosetti’s poem ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’ (1872).
The section on seasons from the Anglo-Saxon collection: Maxims II.
Bede's The Reckoning of Time (11th-12th century)

I also refer to:
Alexandra Harris’ (2016) Weatherland: Writers and artists under English skiespublished by Thames and Hudson
Eleanor Parker’s (2022) Winters in the Word: A journey through the Anglo-Saxon year published by Reaktion Books. 

For more information about Nighttime on Still Waters

You can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com. It will also allow you to become more a part of the podcast and you can leave comments, offer suggestions, and reviews. You can even, if you want, leave me a voice mail by clicking on the microphone icon. 

General Details

In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. 

Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

All other audio recorded on site. 

Contact
For pictures of Erica and images related to the podcasts or to contact me, follow me on:

• Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpod
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/NoswPod

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I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message using the voicemail facility by clicking on the microphone icon. 

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I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message by clicking on the microphone icon.

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“Those eyes of old look at me and, through the haze of your futures, I look back at you…” 

On this freezing December night, snuggle closer to the stove as I reflect on the strangeness of coming across an old photograph of me as a small child as well as the adventures of the Archdeacon on ice.    

Journal entry:

 9th December, Friday

“The scent of wood smoke and cold air.
 The warm, dry sound of someone splitting firewood.
 Each teasel head is framed in a perfect halo of sunlight.
 Today, at least, their sainthood is revealed.”

 Episode Information:

In this episode I read an extract from the Anglo-Saxon poem Andreas and I refer to Eleanor Parker’s book Winters in the Word: A journey through the Anglo-Saxon year published in 2022 by Reaktion Books. 

You can see and buy a copy of Dru Marland’s wonderful ‘Canal Ice Scale’ from her Etsy site: Dru Marland ‘Canal Ice Scale’ (postcard).

Please go to nowspod.com to see copy of the photograph featured in this week's episode.

For more information about Nighttime on Still Waters

You can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com. It will also allow you to become more a part of the podcast and you can leave comments, offer suggestions, and reviews. You can even, if you want, leave me a voice mail by clicking on the microphone icon. 

General Details

In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. 

Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

All other audio recorded on site. 

Contact
For pictures of Erica and images related to the podcasts or to contact me, follow me on:

• Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpod
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/NoswPod
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I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message using the voicemail facility by clicking on the microphone icon. 

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The night is chill and crisp, a bright moon rides the racing clouds and stars shimmer on the surface of the canal. It’s a perfect night for a night walk. Snuggle down and wrap up warm as you join me on a canal walk washed by moon light.   

Journal entry:

29th November, Tuesday

“Reluctant daylight.
 The sun's cold shoulder.
 Three ducks bob on ruffled water.
 I walk on uphill
 Grateful for thick socks.”

 Episode Information:

In this episode I read an extract from Niall Mac Coitir’s retelling of the myth of Halcyone and Ceyx in his (2015) book Ireland’s Birds: Myths, legends and folklore published by Swift Books. The book by Alexander Porteous that I refer to on the walk is The Forest in Folklore and Mythology first published in 1928 and subsequently republished by Courier Corporation (2001). 

I also cite a portion of Ralph McTell’s song ‘Streets of London’ released in 1969. You can listen to the complete song here: Ralph McTell – Streets of London. 

The first NoSW ‘Nightwalk’ can be heard here: Episode 5: Nightwalk. 

For more information about Nighttime on Still Waters

You can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com. 

General Details

In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. 

Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

All other audio recorded on site. 

Contact

• Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpod
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/NoswPod
• Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@nosw  

I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message using the voicemail facility by clicking on the microphone icon. 

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Tonight, we enjoy the special beauties of a rainy town in central England as darkness begins to fall, listen to Thomas Merton on city rain, and spend awhile at a window seat in a small café and create for while our own version of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks. 

Journal entry:

 26th November, Saturday

"Sometimes, all it takes
 To make a day full 
 Is to have breakfast in a half-empty
 cafe filled with chandeliers
 And crescent moons
 With someone you love
 As a watery sun
 Climbs into the morning sky.” 

Episode Information:

In this episode I refer to Edward Hopper’s (1942) painting Nighthawks and Thomas Merton’s (1966) essay ‘Rain and the Rhinoceros’ from his book Raids on the Unspeakable published by New Directions. An open access copy of it can be found here: Piefurcation: Rain and the Rhinoceros by Thomas Merton.  

The sounds for this episode were recorded on Henley Street and York’s Café, Stratford upon Avon on 24th November 2022.

For more information about Nighttime on Still Waters

You can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com. It will also allow you to become more a part of the podcast and you can leave comments, offer suggestions, and reviews. You can even, if you want, leave me a voice mail by clicking on the microphone icon. 

General Details

In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. 

Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

All other audio recorded on site. 

Contact
For pictures of Erica and images related to the podcasts or to contact me, follow me on:

• Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpod
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/NoswPod

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I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message using the voicemail facility by clicking on the microphone icon. 

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As the nights draw in and the cosy glow of a fire gets evermore inviting, it is the perfect time to share stories. It is not surprising that ghost stories have an enduring appeal. Many stories of the canal feature them. Ghosts like the canal networks themselves create a link between our worlds and the past. Tonight we enjoy the skill of Ian Douglas’ retelling of a ghostly encounter at Blisworth tunnel and why these stories are important.  

Journal entry:

18th November, Friday.

“Stainless steel
 An empty room.
 The stark coldness of strip lighting.
 The white skirting board is scuffed.
 The head-swimming bite of the scent of
 Eugenol and dentistry.

I look around for old copies of Giles cartoon annuals
 And dog-eared editions of Punch, 
 But there are none.

Outside oak leaves shimmer
 Against an ocean of sky blue.”

Episode Information:

In this episode I read Ian Douglas’ account of the ghostly encounter in Blisworth Tunnel (and his epilogue) as told in his (2021) Folk Tales from the Canal Side published by The History Press.  

You can watch David Johns’ (Cruising the Cut) own ‘ghostly’ encounter at the tunnel here: Is this a ghostly encounter at the Blisworth tunnel?

I also read a short extract from Storm Dunlop’s (2021) Weather Almanac 2022 published by Harper Collins and make a reference to Allan Scott-Davies’ (2010) book Shadows on the Water: The Haunted Canals and Waterways of Britain also published by The History Press. 

The earlier episode on the liminal nature of canals is: Ep 5 ‘Down the cut’.

The soundtrack for the tunnel story was recorded cruising through Shrewley Tunnel in August 2021.

General Details

In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. 

Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

All other audio recorded on site. 

Contact
For pictures of Erica and images related to the podcasts or to contact me, follow me on:

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I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message using the voicemail facility by clicking on the microphone icon. 

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This week saw the return of the cormorant which prompts a visit to Ernest Ingersoll to find out why they have no voice. A fairly severe reaction to the Covid jab meant that I missed attending this year’s graduation ceremony so join me as I think about past ceremonies and reflect on the journey of those passaging from graduand to graduate.

Journal entry:

 9th November, Wednesday

“Here they come’
 Like a stream in spate,
 Rolling black pebbles in its wake.

Half a dozen tree-fulls of rooks,
 Crows, jackdaws pouring
 across a skyline of dying embers
 And mauve.

Their chatter
 rises up to me, intense,
 busy with life
 and the most serious of pleasures.

Their words are full of comfort.”

Episode Information:

In this episode I read an excerpt from Ernest Ingersoll’s (1923) Birds in Legend, Fable and Folklore published by Longmans, Green and Co. (link will take you to free open access text). 

For more information about Nighttime on Still Waters

You can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com. It will also allow you to become more a part of the podcast and you can leave comments, offer suggestions, and reviews. You can even, if you want, leave me a voice mail by clicking on the microphone icon. 

General Details

In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. 

Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

All other audio recorded on site. 

Contact
For pictures of Erica and images related to the podcasts or to contact me, follow me on:

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• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/
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I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message using the voicemail facility by clicking on the microphone icon. 

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This weekend the clocks change (in the UK). These small markers in our calendars can touch us in deep ways. Join me tonight as we stop the clock, step out of time, and savour together the unspent, untouched hour as the world around us sleeps on.  

Journal entry:

28th October, Friday

“Wild winds race ragged
 As starlings sport and shoal.

Golden leaves, sherry warm,
 Stream head height across the canal.
 A flash of brave blue. A kingfisher
 Swims the leafy cataracts of air.”

Episode Information:

In this episode I read a couple of short extracts from Susan Hill’s (1983) The Magic Apple Tree published by Penguin Books. 

Photographs of the clock I used to wind and the words for ‘Today I held back time’ can be found on the nowspod.com website. 

For more information about Nighttime on Still Waters

You can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com. It will also allow you to become more a part of the podcast and you can leave comments, offer suggestions, and reviews. You can even, if you want, leave me a voice mail by clicking on the microphone icon. 

General Details

In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. 

Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

All other audio recorded on site. 

Contact
For pictures of Erica and images related to the podcasts or to contact me, follow me on:

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• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/NoswPod

I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message using the voicemail facility by clicking on the microphone icon. 

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Tonight, as the evenings draw in and autumn takes a firmer hold of towpath and fields, let's gather close beside a woodland campfire for some unabashed romanticism. 
For life teaches us two things:
 1. Romance does the heart good and brings a smile to the soul - and, on these darker and chillier evenings, who would deny us that? 
 2. Small boys will always be totally captivated by a wild heart and a gypsy smile ;)

Journal entry:

  18th October, Tuesday

“Low cloud, like smoke, sweep down the weeping slopes
 Turning fields and woods to smudgy greys.
 Scattered below the wordless wood
 blurred sheep graze like finger marks in window putty.

Above, cirrus clouds float like flamingo islands in chalk-blue oceans.
 Dry leaves rattle.
 This morning I walked beneath a cave of stars
 And now I see the sun.”

Episode Information:

In this episode I read a couple of short extracts from two poems ‘The Adventures of Tom Bombadil’ and ‘Errantry’ that featured in JRR Tolkien’s (1962) The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book published by George Allen and Unwin. 

I also briefly refer to John Masefield’s (1903) ‘Cargoes’.

Bonfire recorded by ‘Kyster’ and uploaded to Freesounds on 17th June 2010: https://freesound.org/people/Kyster/sounds/99280

Fox call recorded in Jersey on 14th May 2020 by ‘Ionskwad2020’. https://freesound.org/people/lonskwad2020/sounds/518135/#

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In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. 

Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

All other audio recorded on site. 

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