Peter Grant

Nature is home, even if we live in cities. I love learning and writing about the natural world.

[Peter Grant @auntyscuttle]

@tanner_lian @espinacas I find the theme to the Wombles very effective. "Underground, overground, wombling free" etc. Very few can remember the rest, and the brain zones out while trying.

[Peter Grant @auntyscuttle]

@antsharwood Amen to that! I also dislike “bagging” peaks. This is the language of consumption and doesn’t fit with the natural environment.

[Peter Grant @auntyscuttle]

@tanner_lian @AllenAndUnwin As our granddaughter, Aria, is Anglophone, she will have to settle for the English language copy we’re giving her for Christmas 😘 (A lovely book @tanner_lian 😊)

[Peter Grant @auntyscuttle]

Spring has only sporadically sprung here in #Tasmania, but we can always find gold in thum thar hills. My latest piece for Forty South.

https://t.co/Bdqi6Z3WSZ

[Peter Grant @auntyscuttle]

Just posting this here to remind us that there is a sun ... somewhere. #dreich weather

[Vica Bayley @VicaBayley]

Cable car hearings have now concluded

HCC legal closing a good summary:

“This application is a house of cards erected on very shaky foundations and held together with the flimsiest of responses to the deep and profound values of one of Hobart’s most important natural assets...”

[Peter Grant @auntyscuttle]

@murpharoo @quarterly_essay Don’t forget to stretch your actual legs too ☺️

[Peter Grant @auntyscuttle]

As the days lengthen I'm thinking of the 'happy places' I'll soon be visiting, like #TheCentralPlateau in #Tasmania

https://t.co/2FZsOZl01q

[Peter Grant @auntyscuttle]

Thinking of Sweden in summer, because ... well, winter in #tasmania. And mulling over the beautiful Swedish word #smultronställe

More here https://t.co/n76r1U9kz3

[Peter Grant @auntyscuttle]

@antsharwood If you’re driving west & it’s out the driver’s side window, could be Mt Rufus (not far from all St Clair). More clues would help 😊

[Peter Grant @auntyscuttle]

“They paid the road builders by the curve, not by the mile” goes the old joke about #Tasmania Is there more than a grain of truth in it? My latest piece for @fortysouthtas https://t.co/PdzD8f3etX

[Peter Grant @auntyscuttle]

@frippet There's (a lot) more here https://t.co/tomqDMOGDT and here https://t.co/Db10TH5fZS and also https://t.co/JR0Iq5QFKt Sorry ... #naturewriting is something of an obsession.

[Peter Grant @auntyscuttle]

@frippet And the very need to ask this question was the major reason for starting the Wildcare Tasmania Nature Writing Prize (currently, and sadly, in mothballs).

[Peter Grant @auntyscuttle]

@frippet Eric Rolls, yes. And especially this.

[Peter Grant @auntyscuttle]

@BradDesmond2 As a “known quantity”, it was hard to stand out. At interview’s end I was asked if I had anything to add. I handed the panel a 10,000 word master plan outlining where I wanted to take the role. I got the job.

[Peter Grant @auntyscuttle]

@teamswiftparrot Same same! It was quite a chore getting to #39, but I ended up with that “clean house” glow.

[Peter Grant @auntyscuttle]

Below the line Senate voting is quite the game in Tasmania. Fortunate that the German word for last rhymes well with a certain candidate’s name.

[Peter Grant @auntyscuttle]

@dorkymum Yes, beware the talons of Tassie! We came on our honeymoon in 1976, loved it, moved here in 1980. Three children and 10 grandchildren later, we couldn’t live anywhere else.

[Peter Grant @auntyscuttle]

@antsharwood @HachetteAus Well deserved Ant - just finished The Brumby Wars, and enjoyed it just as much as From Snow to Ash. Great work!

[Peter Grant @auntyscuttle]

Enjoyed brilliant displays of red and (rarer) yellow seed heads of Bellendena montana, before rain stopped play. This Tasmanian endemic, aka #mountainrocket, is restricted to our high country.