Callum Saunders

Nature notes from a southerner in the Peak District. Navigating a new sense of place through landscape, prose & photography.

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Today I couldn’t deny the call of isolation any longer. Invigorating solitude found up William Clough and Kinder Plateau.

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A polite reminder that I now do all my tweeting over @callumsaunders.

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Donnie Darko x Minecraft collaboration #PetShopBoys #Glastonbury2022 #glastonburyfestival2022

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@MeganMcCubbin Is this the best seat in a beer garden, ever?!

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Strange plant has sprung up in the garden - can anyone help identify it?

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Forgot to post this on Sunday: a fox moth caterpillar (I think) on the moors. Life seems to be awakening daily at the moment; a joy to behold.

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A new hobby in lockdown 3.0. Inspired by my good friend @jim_revelator, I started #spooncarving in January. Something incredibly cathartic about working with your hands and producing something ‘tangible’ when your hands normally just send emails.

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@KellySims76 Mud and fresh air is *always* a great restorer! We're surviving, just! Taking each day as it comes...

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@KellySims76 Thank you for the RT! Hope all’s going well with you, Kelly.

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@B_Strawbridge I know this photo is a few weeks old now, but I still return to it. Such a marvellous microcosm of form, texture, colour and shape!

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Lockdown Lament (ii)

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“And sometimes, just sometimes, the loneliest place you can be, is in your own mind.” Lockdown Lament (ii), 23.01.21

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Lockdown Lament (i)

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That aside, here’s a very rough few images and words I played around with last night. Videos and words my own.

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Today’s woodland walk was made by the sighting of hundreds of scarlet elf caps. Like fallen red petals, they brought a vivid sense of life and colour to the drab woodland floor on this gloomy February day. Superb stuff. #FungiFriday #fungi #scaletelfcups

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@foxedme @NT_andybeer I wholeheartedly agree with that Clare. It’s amazing how it also brings such diversity and richness to the very same paths I walk in lockdown, because I’m attuned to something different each time. And this is in the depths of winter!

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I want to recommend ‘Every Day Nature’ by @NT_andybeer. My sister gave it to me & it’s an absolute joy. Intimate, grounded and ‘real’, it opens up the natural world around all of us, wherever we live. Accessible and rich whatever your current engagement with nature.

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@NT_andybeer I agree! And it’s so involving. Lichen, moss, birds, ‘weeds’.

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@NT_andybeer Thank ‘you’, Andy. I’m working from home at the moment, which affords me a lunchtime walk. Your daily observations ring so true. Here’s ‘moss’ from earlier in January.

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Pencils, tea and an assortment of snacks. We’re off! #BigGardenBirdWatch

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Excited to participate in the #BigGardenBirdWatch2021 this weekend. Had planned to enjoy an hour with my 6-year-old this morning, but the weather’s been so atrocious all night, there’s no birds!

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Remember to sign up for the #BigGardenBirdWatch this weekend with @Natures_Voice

Article by @AlexCarlTurner
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“And sometimes, just sometimes, the loneliest place you can be, is in your own mind.” Lockdown Lament (ii), 23.01.21

[Callum Saunders @ASeasonedSoul]

Landscape always sculpts the mind, and often acts as an echo chamber for your own thoughts and reflections. But there are other times when the biting rawness of emptiness and expanse invigorate you and shake the shackles of melancholy from your very bones.