A bit of a grey old day today. Pat, Molly (the dog) and myself travelled to Castle Carrock in the search of camp sites and performance venues. Took a small detour, which turned into a long detour, to the RSPB …
Chris with Class 3 from Castle Carrock School May 2014
While others have a tree, stones or even a mound in the ground to focus on, I’ve got a Valley and it’s a wet one too. At any rate on …
During the first week of our Land Journey throughout the day we would take time to stop, consider, condense and write contributions to a communal Renga. Upon our return Malcolm spent an evening with Poet Linda France going through the …
Malcolm’s story
To embark on a walk is a simple thing. To put one foot in front of another until you stop. The intention behind the walk, however, affects everything about its nature. The simple act of walking becomes meaningful …
DREAMING THE LAND
A Walk with Friends through Northumbria
29th June to 6th July 2013
I arrived late in the dark after a long drive in the Landover. Malcolm, Nigel and Chris welcomed me to the fire. Chris, big, warm-hearted …
I was working with the children of Glendale Middle School in Wooler, creating stories from the Iron Age hill fort on Yeavering Bell. We were due to go on a field trip and I decided it would be a good …
Time slipped away as the year 4 children of Rothbury first school shimmied between the zones on our trip from Whittondean to Lordenshaws. The stone-age became the bronze age which morphed into the iron age as we moved from cup …
On a cold bleak day in April Jessica Turner and myself went over to Holy Island to see the medieval site of Green Shiel. I had never been there before and was quite impressed to find 5 rectangular shapes of …
Following our research into the different sites and the time we had spent working in their local communities, we set off to grow our stories – the fiction to compliment the facts that Paul and Jessica had shared with us. …
There’s always more preparation for a project than anyone thinks there’s going to be – research, meetings, planning and then if there’s going to be a making element, finding and buying materials, and more preparation depending on the nature of …