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Ned Vessey
Aug 23 min read
Resonance
If pressed to do so, I would call myself a writer. However, over the last year, I’ve spent almost as much time working in a clothes shop...
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Ned Vessey
Jul 152 min read
Poems: January - June '24
A selection of some poems written over the course of this year. I hadn't written much poetry before this year, so any thoughts and...
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Alby Stevens
Sep 28, 20236 min read
Bristol to Gombola - An Accidental Journey
A guest star on the blog this week as my friend Alby writes about an eventful journey from England to Italy made all the more rewarding...
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Ned Vessey
Sep 18, 20235 min read
A Sense of Direction
We use Google Maps all the time. Does this matter? Yes. Last month I moved to Bristol. Within the city I found myself seeking out the...
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Ned Vessey
Jun 28, 20232 min read
Protests Stopped Play
And why cricket shouldn’t ignore Just Stop Oil. Just one over was bowled at Lord’s before Just Stop Oil showed themselves. It felt almost...
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Ned Vessey
Jun 22, 20234 min read
An Audience with a Skylark
We heard the skylarks long before we saw them. We had been walking all morning, through woodland then up onto a rise that ran like a...
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Ned Vessey
Mar 19, 20234 min read
Walthamstow Wetlands: A Vision of the Future
It was drizzling when I got off the Tube, and I didn’t have a coat. I turned up my jacket collar and hoped for the best. As I walked...
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Ned Vessey
Jan 13, 20234 min read
The Loss of the Land: Wild Camping on Dartmoor Ruling
Today, the simple right to wild camp beneath the stars on Dartmoor in Devon was taken away. Why is this significant? Because it was the...
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Ned Vessey
Sep 27, 20224 min read
Worth Forest worth saving
Worth Forest in Sussex is old. Veteran oaks and beeches line its rides like sentinels. The traces of Iron Age paths can still be seen,...
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Ned Vessey
May 5, 20224 min read
Flynn, Macfarlane, the Cedar Wood and Stories
On Saturday I was fortunate enough to see writer Robert Macfarlane and singer Johnny Flynn’s Lost in the Cedar Wood live show. It is...
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