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When I meet people who listen to this podcast, one of the most frequently mentioned features is the inclusion of the weather log with which I end each episode. This week I talk about what inspired it, one of which is my childhood love of the BBC’s Shipping Forecast. What makes these stark lists of climatic data ring so powerfully in our minds?    

Journal entry:

“8th October, Friday

Laundry-water coloured skies
 Heavy dews
 Clumps of willow-herb hang like desolate sodden paper tissues.

The sock on my right foot keeps balling
 Under the arch of my instep.
 I lean against the brickwork of bridge 65 to readjust it.

Penny contentedly sniffs out the worlds 
 Hidden from me.

But my mind is filled with childhood snow scenes
 And socks that never stayed up in gum boots.”   

Episode Information

For lovers of the Shipping Forecast and, particularly for those outside the UK who might now have heard it, the 99% Visible Blog and podcast has a wonderfully informative online article by Roman Mars, ‘The Shipping Forecast’, that sketches out its history and characteristics, as well as featuring links to recordings of it. 

You can listen and watch Laurie Macmillan read the Shipping Forecast accompanied with ‘Sailing By’ on: Radio 4 Shipping Forecast (Youtube). 

Vangelis’ track ‘Albedo 0.39’ can be found on his album Albedo 0.39 (1976) released by RCA. To listen to it: Albedo 0.39 (Youtube). 

 In this episode I quote excerpts from:

Charlie Connelly (2019) Last Train to Hilversum published by Bloomsbury 

Peter Jefferson (2011) And Now the Shipping Forecast: A tide of history around our shores. published by UIT Cambridge.

Nic Compton (2016) The Shipping Forecast: A miscellany. Published by Ebury

Seán Street’s poem ‘The Shipping Forecast: Donegal’ is from his Time Between Tides (2007) published by Rockingham. There is a beautifully crafted and presented reading of it on Soundcloud. To listen to it: The Shipping Forecast: Donegal.

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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This has been a week of blustery winds and storms. Perfect weather for the wild choreographies of the rooks jousting on the wind. The devil has spat upon the blackberries and we (rather hurriedly) mark our first birthday – this podcast is one year old!

Journal entry:

“2nd October, Saturday

Below a thrown scatter of rooks
 South-westerly gusts kick up
 leaves not yet ready to drop.

Rains seeps into the cuffs of my coat

Autumn glory.” 

Episode Information

In this episode I refer to:

John Mazluff and Tony Angell’s (2005) In the Company of Crows and Ravens published by Yale University Press.  

Jennifer Ackerman’s (2020) The Bird Way: A new look at how birds talk, work, play, parent and eat. Penguin Press. 

To hear Amada and Wayne (NB Aecern aka NB Wanabees) interview on  great ‘The Silver Fox Sessions’ podcast: 5. You Know What? Anything Can Happen! Newbie Narrowboaters Wayne and Amanda

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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These are the mornings of mist that ring with the call of geese. What is it about catching sight of the flight of geese and hearing their wind-borne calls that evokes such  feelings restless longing and yearning within us? And yearning for what? We listen to the words of Wendell Berry, BB, David Whyte and Mary Oliver to find ways to capture those powerful emotions. 

Journal entry:

“24th September, Friday

A tangle of Victorian girders
 Russet brown; a lacy filigree 
 of metal, rivets, and musty glass. 

Anti-pigeon spikes 
Repel the reality in which we live.
 Willowherb smoke, rusty sidings, 
Bramble fountains – barbed and irrepressible. 

The sharp-edged wings of a gull, 
Outstretched, cruciform, alive.
 And my spirit rises with it, 
Soaring into the sunlight above the grime-streaked glass.”              

Episode Information

In this episode I discuss some of the ‘Little Grey Men’ books of the author BB (Denys Watkins-Pitchford). They are:

BB (1942) Little Grey Men reissued (2012) by Oxford University Press. 

BB (1948) Down the Bright Stream (later published as The Little Grey Men go Down the Bright Stream) also reissued (2001) by Oxford University Press. 

Wendell Berry’s poem ‘Listen!’ can be found in his (2018) volume, The Peace of Wild Things published by Penguin Books. 

David Whyte’s poem ‘The Journey’ has a number of publications but can be read in his (2018) David Whyte: Essentials published by Many Rivers Press. You can watch him talk about it and recite it here: The Journey. 

The two poems by Mary Oliver ‘Snow Geese’ and ‘Wild Geese’ are collected in her (2004) Wild Geese: Selected poems. Published by Blood Axe. 

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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This week we catch up with news of our little swan family and explore the strange word ‘gongoozler’. What does it mean? Where does it come from? In some ways it functions as a shibboleth. Its use identifying the ‘true’ canal people from those outside the community. However, it also shines a light on tensions of modern day living. 

Journal entry:

“15th September, Wednesday

Dawn filled with the scent of autumn notes.
 Rooks stream like smoke or falling leaves
     Across the ragged sky
            Haunted by geese calls
                     Flying east into the rising sun.”            

Episode Information

The website to which I refer in this episode is ‘Word Histories’ and the entry for ‘gongoozler’ is here: ‘Meaning and origin of ‘Gongoozler’’.

I also refer to the following:

HR De Salis (1904/2012)  Bradshaw's Canals and Navigable Rivers of England and Wales republished by Old House Books (among others)

L.T.C. Rolt (1944) Narrow Boat first published by Eire and Spottiswoode

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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Join me tonight on a journey on the dark waters of Shrewley Tunnel. In this episode we travel not just through the tunnel but also through history and try to capture the life of those who worked the canals by physically 'legging' boats through.   

Journal entry:

“12th September, Friday

Having Brunch at the Gongoozler’s Rest Café.
The smell of wet earth and fallen apples
A frisson of rain among rowan leaves
Scarlet berries decorating the ground.

A sleepy wasp crawls over my hand.
 I can feel its tiny life vibrating within it.

Later we watch a duck asleep in the rain.
 Days together like this – make the difference.”   

Episode Information

Audio recorded at Shrewley Tunnel on 27th August 2021. 
 Photographs taken during this trip can be viewed on the Nighttime on Still Waters’ Facebook page, Instagram and Twitter accounts. 

In this episode I read extracts from the following books:

J.M. Pearson (2017) Pearson’s Canal Companions: South Midlands. 10th edn. Published by Wayzgoose. 

L.T.C. Rolt (1944) Narrow Boat first published by Eire and Spottiswoode

Sue Wilkes (2011) Tracing Your Canal Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians. Published by Casemate.

John Hollingshead (1860) Odd Journeys In and out of London. Published by Goombridge and Sons.

I also refer to Allan Scott-Davies (2010) Shadows on the Water: The haunted canals and waterways of Britain. Published by The History 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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How did the willow threaten a powerful king? What has bloody fingers to do with St Withburga? How much does our knowledge of the world dictate the way you see it? The names we give things are useful (vital even), but they are not passive. Names frame the way we view the world. In this week’s episode (with apologies to Henry Reed) we ‘unname the parts’ to find how rediscovering local names and stories can connect us in new (or older) ways with our environment. 

Journal entry:

“3rd September, Friday

The night’s tide is flowing back into the mornings
 Darkness drifts on the down of thistle and ragwort.

Penny and I will soon be needing bat’s eyes.
 And each morning
     We walk out of the friendly darkness
 Into the cold light
      And the one tree that has become my pole star.”         

Episode Information

In this episode I read a short extract from E Temple Thurston’s (1911) The Flower of Gloster. For more details see Episode 38: Temple Thurston’s ‘Flower of Gloster’ (Summer readings 2).

The lock keeper’s cottage at Lowsonford, mentioned in the extract, is now owned by the Landmark Trust and can be hired out for holidays. Details and booking can be found here: ‘Lengthman’s Cottage’ at Lowsonford. 

You can read the story of King Labhraidh Loingseach and his horses ears in (among many other places) Niall Mac Coitir’s (2016) Ireland’s Trees: Myths, legends and folklore published by The Collins Press. 

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

You can find more information on the plant cuckoo-pint or lords and ladies at: wildfooduk:lordsandladies

I conclude this episode by reading RS Thomas’ poem ‘The Bright Field’ from his () Later Poems 1972-1982 published by Papermac. You can read it here: The Bright Field. You can also hear RS Thomas reading it here: RS Thomas reads ‘The Bright Field’.

 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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This week we explore and listen to extracts of Kenneth Grahame's (1908) children's classic The Wind in the Willows. 
The story follows of the lives of various (anthropomorphised) animals that live by a river, principally, through Mole (Moley) and the Water Rat (Ratty). Their friend, the wilful, spontaneous, and exuberant Toad (of Toad Hall), acts as (almost literally) the driver of the plot. Toad's escapades and recklessness result in the need for Moley and Ratty and their friend, the wise but curmudgeonly Badger, to come to his rescue.
Grahame's writing is lyrical and evocative and in this episode we enjoy his descriptions of the river. However, his work also has great depth to it. This story can read as an exploration of how we should live within our natural environment, challenging the growing disconnection between people and nature felt within the Victorian age.
Grahame, like many other writers of his time, was also fascinated with spirituality and religious experiences outside mainstream (Christian) religion. The Wind in the Willows contains a fascinating and powerful chapter ('The Piper at the Gates of Dawn') in which Ratty and Moley have a mystical experience with a transcendent figure. Grahame's description, pre-dates, but beautifully expresses, the ideas of theologian Rudolf Otto and encountering the numinous, which Otto describes as a a non-sensory experience of a mystery that is at once terrifying whilst also being fascinating.     

Bibliographic information
Kenneth Grahame (2005) The Wind in the Willows. London: Penguin Classics (although multiple publishers.
The chapter 'The Piper at the Gates of Dawn' can be read here: 'The Piper at the Gates of Dawn'

Rudolf Otto (1924) The Idea of the Holy: An inquiry into the non-rational factor in the area of the divine and its relation to the rational. Eng. Trans. London: Humphrey Milfold. (free open-access)

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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Is August high summer, late summer, or early autumn? Does the Queen own our little cygnet that went missing? Who looks after the canal banks? This week’s episode addresses all these pressing questions, as well as dealing with my existential angst at the threat of being robbed of ‘summer’. 

Journal entry:

“19th August, Thursday

This week, each day fills and swells with the stresses and anxieties of work. Familiar pulses of panic surge up as the seconds tick by. 
 They overwhelm my skies. It feels as it’s all my world can contain, and even then, it’s not enough.

But then, I have also seen damson fruit ripen, and turn all the colours of a tropical sunset, and hang midnight blue and misty on the tree.
 And, for that, I am glad.”        

Episode Information

 In this episode I read ‘Night Crawls On’ by Tom Hennen which can be found in his (2013) Darkness Sticks to Everything. Washington: Copper Canyon Press. 

I also read an extract from the early 17th century English printed volume by Nicholas Breton of the 15th century The Kalendar of Shepherds: Being devices for the twelve months.

You can read a digitised reproduction of this book, with its wonderful woodcut engravings, in the Welcome Library: The Kalendar of Shepherds: Being devices for the twelve months.

This episode concludes with an extract from Wendell Berries’ ‘Sabbath Poems’ part XII, ‘I walk in openings’, from his (2018) The Peace of Wild Things and Other Poems published by Penguin.  

 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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Under the poplars beside milepost 16 is a place of enchantment and quiet sanctuary, particularly in times of broiling heat.  Join me in tonight’s episode as revel in its soundscape and its dappled beauty as we explore its very particular genius loci.  You can also hear about the saga concerning our little swan family and what happened this week to their young cygnet (happy ending). 

Journal entry:

“11th August, Wednesday

Geese calls across the dawn skies
 Haunting echelons 
       Black against grey. 

Rooks rise and fall
 Sharp and jagged silhouettes 
       Riding a wilder wind than the one that
           brushes my skin. 

Wilder souls in a world that will not be tamed.” 

Episode Information

For photographs of this location (and reunited swans), please go to the NoSW facebook page, Instagram or Twitter accounts (links below).

In this episode I mention to new YouTube channels that will be of interest to NoSW listeners. 

Steve May’s (from NB Blue Pheonix) new channel is called “Ramblings of a Mad Man!” 

Mark Dexter’s videos on life as a captain of a cruise ship is “Excuse Me Captain Mark” and is also on YouTube.

All audio soundscapes for this episode were recorded on location at ‘Milepost 16’ on 19 July 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 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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After a 3 week break, Nighttime on Still Waters is back with episode 40! In this episode we catch up with what has been happening on the moorings and reflect on the place of night walking in history and culture.  

Journal entry:

“5th August, Thursday

High in a tree a blackbird
   Sings into the night.

A river of notes
    Pours into the cabin. 

There are no stars
    Just music.”     

Episode Information

In this episode I refer to:

Miles Hadfield’s (1950) An English Almanac published by JM Dent and Sons. 

Matthew Beaumont’s (2015) Night Walking published by Verso.

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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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.