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As tonight’s full moon is shrouded by the fog that rolls down the hill and curls and drifts upon the water join us aboard the NB Erica as we fall once more in love with the commonplace and overlooked things. The hill may not be named, or even be awarded a contour of its own, but it nevertheless is the place of gentle and unremarkable miracles. 

Journal entry:

“17th December, Friday

It didn’t take long
     For those three years of growth
          To lie cut upon the ground.

Penny sniffs the torn and broken stems.
     I step over teasel heads
            Trodden into the mud. “

Episode Information

In this episode I read:

Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem ‘Pied Beauty’ from Poems and Prose published by Penguin Classics (1985).

Tim Hennen’s (2013) ‘What the Plants Say’ from his Darkness Sticks to Everything published by Copper Canyon Press. 

I also read a quotation from Arthur Machen’s (1924) The London Adventure: Or the art of wandering. Republished by Tartrus Press. 

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
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Following the epic weather of the past few weeks, we go back in time to a period that best celebrated this type of weather. In this episode we explore why the enigmatic appeal of Anglo-Saxon poetry and its fascination (or even obsession) with winter casts such an enduring influence on our culture. It is the perfect type of literature for cold winter nights, but there are also other deeper traits that remain deeply rooted in our shared cultural memories that inform our attitudes to winter.    

Journal entry:

“8th December, Wednesday

Storm Barra is barrelling around the boat
    Harrying and jostling us,
     So that the roaring world tips and sways.

The darkness is flecked silver with rain
      As Penny and I walk into a howling dawn. “

Episode Information

In this episode I mention the following books:

Michael Alexander’s (2006) The Earliest English Poems Penguin Classics series, published by Penguin Books.

Alexandra Harris’ (2015) Weatherland: Writers and artists under English skies published by Thames and Hudson. 

I read excerpts from the following poems (Michael Alexander’s translations):

The Ruin (alternative translation)

The Seafarer

Exeter riddle 73 (other texts count it as 74) 

For those wanting to explore the world of Anglo Saxon and Old English literature, you might find this website, created by Dr Aaron Hostetter from Rutgers University, very helpful: An Old English Poetry Project.

A digital version of the Exeter Book produced c.970 (in which the above are featured) can be viewed here: Exeter Book

I also mentioned Andy Grifee’s narrowboat-based crime series featuring Johnson and Wilde which are published by Orphans Publishing. 

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
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You join us on (another)stormy night, but this one is moonless and black as tar. It is the night of the new moon – the Cold Moon or the Long Night Moon. The phases of the moon give us an opportunity to contemplate the intricate play of cycles all around us and how the mirror, challenge and provide direction for our lives.   

Journal entry:

“3rd December, Friday

The tops of the trees is Shakespeare’s wood have disappeared in cloud. 

A defrosted world, smothered in mist and pearled with beads of water.

The canal looks opaque.
 A soup of leaf and silt.
      Unfathomable and still.

A jackdaw hides in plain sight amongst the wind-left leaves of an oak
      As a rabbit sits up and watches us pass.“

 Episode Information

For more information about the phases of the moon and the names given to the moon each month, the Royal Museums Greenwich, have an excellent website: Why do we have special names for full moons?

In this episode I read the following poems:

RS Thomas ‘The Moon in Lleyn’ from his (1984) RS Thomas Later Poems: 1972-1982 published by Papermac. 

David Whyte ‘Faith’ from his (1990) Where Many Rivers Meet published by Many Rivers Press. 

Walter de la Mare (1922) ‘Silver’ multiple publishing. 

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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The after-effects of the booster jab are just beginning to slam into me and so tonight’s episode is going to be fairly short. However, you join us on a very cold and stormy night as Storm Arwen with its ‘screaming northerlies’ batters the boat and brings with it our first snows of the winter, but the boat is warm, the hatches are battened and, as always, there is a very warm welcome awaiting you.  

Journal entry:

“27th November, Saturday

Mum, you would have loved days like this.
 And to sit beside the glowing stove and feel the wind hug the boat.

But the leaf is now fallen from the tree of my life 
 leaving silence where there was once an anchor of love 
      and a stack of dog-eared books.

Somewhere on this howling wind rides your love 
        and it makes it feel a little less cold.

Happy birthday.”

Episode Information

In this episode I read Mum’s favourite poem ‘Nicholas Nye’ by Walter de la Mare. 

You can read the poem here: Nicholas Nye. 

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
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The pace of autumn is gathering and a chill is creeping into the air tonight, but the stove is warm. In tonight’s episode we go off to encounter Traveller’s Joy, and explore the potency and importance of names.  

Journal entry:

“19th November, Friday

The ash tree held its breath as the moon grazed the darkness,
 Between cirrus sandbanks, in a halo of light.

A handful of stars, misplaced and constellation-less,
 Breadcrumbs, no longer able to lead me home.

And now the dawn rises ochre and mauve.
 The larches stand tall on the horizon. 

Thank God for sunrise
 And November buds. “

Episode Information

In this episode I refer to the following authors:

W. Keble Martin (1965) The Concise British Flora in Colour published by Ebury Press.  

Roy Vickery (2019) Vickery’s Folk-Flora: An A-Z of the folklore and uses of British and Irish plants published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson.  

Niall Mac Coitir (2015) Ireland's Wild Plants: Myths, legends and folklore published by Collins Press. 

Richard Folkard (1884) Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyric: Embracing the myths, traditions, superstitions and folk-lore of the plant kingdom published by Sampson Low (multiple re-publishers). 

For more general information and photographs of Traveller’s Joy/Old Man’s Beard, some good sites are:

Woodlands.co.uk: Traveller’s Joy
Wildflower Finder: Traveller’s Joy

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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Against all odds, this episode comes a little out of time! Events have conspired resulting in a slightly truncated episode recorded in the afternoon!! Nevertheless, duck chatter and babies (with a little help from John Moriarty) help us to find a path through the tangled thickets that many of us are possibly facing. 

Journal entry:

“10th November, Wednesday

A light mist, like smoke, has begun to sweep down the hill turning fields and woods to smudgy greys. Scattered across the gentle curve of the hills blurred sheep graze, like clumsily erased pencilled mistakes.

Dry leaves rattle. 
 This morning, Penny and I walked beneath a cave of stars 
 and now I see the sun.”                

Episode Information

In this episode I refer to the Jo and Vic’s vlog Holly – The Café Boat. The episode featuring the arrival of baby William is ‘The Next Episode.’

I also read several passages from John Moriarty’s (2007) What the Curlew Said: Nostos continued published by Lilliput Press. 

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 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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What is it about fire that holds our fascination? Last weekend the clocks went back and in the span of one night darkness began to lap at the edges of our late afternoons. The encroachment of night leading the tide of winter into our daytimes can no longer be ignored and it is understandable that at this time of year we are so drawn to the image of an open fire. In this episode, with the help of the poet Robert Service, we explore the ways that fire can touch us so deeply emotionally, reawakening old memories and feelings.

Journal entry:

“5th November, Friday

A chill greyness has seeped into the landscape
 That silvered dawns
 And sunsets of fiery bronze 
 Cannot shift. 

COP26 started this week. 
 Twitter and newsfeeds are not good places to be. 

So I stand by the big oak
 Listening for the raven’s call
 And the windsong of geese.

Above me contrails flower the cobalt sky
 And, at my feet, 
 A clover leaf
 Laced with ice.                  

Episode Information

In this episode I read extracts from a number of poems by Robert W Service (1874-1958). These are:

‘The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike’
‘The Lure of Little Voices’
‘The Logger’
‘The Song of the Campfire’

There are a number of collections of his works. The one I have been using is Dan McGrew, Sam McGee and Other Great Service Poems published by Taylor (1987).
 
 

For more information about Service’s life and work, see: Robert W. Service.

For more information on research relating to the psychological and physiological effects of sitting by an open fire:

C.D. Lynn. (2014) ‘Hearth and Campfire Influences on Arterial Blood Pressure: Defraying the

Costs of the Social Brain through Fireside Relaxation’. Evolutionary Psychology 12(5). 983-1003.  

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 interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

All other audio recorded on site. 

Contact
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Tonight, you join me on a wild October night with the rain rattling against the cabin roof - so there is a little background noise in some places. But it’s warm and dry inside. Penny is snoring in front of the stove. Settle back as we look at life and Halloweens through the flickering light of a swede-head lantern of my childhood. 

Journal entry:

“26th October, Tuesday

Gloaming.
 Civil Twilight.
 The ash in the south field is losing its denseness;
     Filigree silhouette, like a Victorian cut paper artwork.

Westerly wind.
 Buoyant and roguish.
 All at once, hundreds of leaves lift and rise up
 Caught on the bandit wind.
 Slowly transforming into rooks and jackdaws
    They take wing and beat strong across
          A crowing sky.”       

Episode Information

There is a lovely article about swede and turnip head lanterns on the BBC News website: Do turnip lanterns still haunt Halloween?

For those interested in the history behind them, this is an interesting blog post: Jack o’ lantern and Will o’ the wisp.

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 interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

All other audio recorded on site. 

Contact
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This week Vanessa from ‘The Mindful Narrowboat’ vlog got me thinking and so this week we begin to explore how our knowledge and (perhaps) attitudes to fungi are changing and leading us back to older ways of thinking about the environment and our place within it.

Journal entry:

“21st October, Thursday

A Hunter’s Moon swinging high
 Across a highwayman’s sky
 Of racing clouds.

The streets of Birmingham run wet
 With the glittering jewels of
 Brake lights and shop front signs. 

Later, 
 A gull soars through the 
 Thermal canyons and valleys
 Under a sky of cut sapphire. 

Later still,
 The Plough silently revolves over the boat
 Needle sharp shards of light
 At the moment, tilting north. ”   

Episode Information

In this episode I read the following poems:
 Emily Dickinson’s ‘The Mushroom is the elf of plants’
Sylvia Plath’s ‘Mushrooms’ ,
You can hear Sylvia Plath’s own reading of her poem here: Sylvia Plath reads ‘Mushrooms.’                    

I also read excerpts from:
John Clare’s (1827) from ‘October’ in The Shepherd’s Calendar
Wendell Berry’s (2017) The World-Ending Fire: Essential Wendell Berry published by Catapult.
Robin Wall Kimmerer (2020) Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants published by Penguin.  It is also published in the shorter volume:  The Democracy of Species also published by Penguin as part of their ‘Green Ideas’ series.  

I also refer to the works of:
Suzanne Simard (2021) Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the wisdom and intelligence of the forest. published by Penguin. 

Vanessa’s ‘Mindful Narrowboat’ vlog can be viewed here: The Mindful Narrowboat. Her Twitter account can be found at: @TheMindfulNB

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 interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

All other audio recorded on site. 

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Although the trees and hedgerows here are still holding on to their greens, further afield their transformation into golds and yellows and reds is unmistakable. This time of year never fails to trigger a memory of a young couple I once saw in a park in the middle of England who were entering a world that was turning to gold.     

Journal entry:

“16th October, Saturday

7 degrees and the dawn is still an hour away.
 Flecks of dew on Penny’s nose. Not a breath of wind. The still air carries distant sounds closer: The jagged gash of the A46; airliners chasing each other to shiny, antiseptic, unwelcoming terminals and grim-eyed immigration clerks. 

Closer by, nothing stirs. Silence.

7 degrees and the sky is washed with 50 shades of mauve. Clouds, like bruises, swim across an alien sky.

The hedges chink with blackbirds’ alarms.
 A solitary raven cronks on big, ragged wings. Crows call back.
 The pillowy boulders of sheep lying in the tall grass do not move as we pass.

Our shadows grow black as the sun climbs.
 and it is still 7 degrees.”                

Episode Information

In this episode I mention the work of the artist Pete Tuffrey. You can see his work, and his painting ‘Gales in Viking’ (and his newer painting ‘Lessening’ which came out after this recording) by going to his Facebook page or Twitter account. 

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 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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