A Circling Year

This series is a twelve-month account of explorations of our patch of the Pennines between April 2020 and March 2021 – a journal of place, weather and wildlife in that strangest of years. From the extraordinary shining spring through the grip of prolonged winter isolation, each post records the paths my six-year-old son and I walked, the small discoveries we made and the landscape that held us through lockdowns. Circling the same nine square miles that we could reach on foot revealed, as it did for so many, the deep texture of the nearby and the rich unfolding of everyday terrain.