Nick MacKinnon is a freelance teacher of Maths, English and Medieval History, and lives above Haworth, in the last inhabited house before Top Withens = Wuthering Heights. In 1992 he founded the successful Campaign to Save Radio 4 Long Wave while in plaster following a rock-climbing accident on Skye. His poem ‘The metric system’ won…
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Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 16 by John Page
John Page was born in the West Riding, a proud Yorkshireman and was taught to play cricket left-handed “’cos it flummoxes t’ bowler, and buggers up t’ field.” He went to university in London and Leeds, and enjoyed (most of the time) attempting to teach young people that there’s a big wide world beyond the…
Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 21 by Nick MacKinnon
Nick MacKinnon is a freelance teacher of Maths, English and Medieval History, and lives above Haworth, in the last inhabited house before Top Withens = Wuthering Heights. In 1992 he founded the successful Campaign to Save Radio 4 Long Wave while in plaster following a rock-climbing accident on Skye. His poem ‘The metric system’ won…
Stephen Moss’s 2024 Round-up of Nature Books
Stephen Moss is an author and naturalist based in Somerset. Having retired from running the MA Nature and Travel Writing at Bath Spa University he is now a Visiting Research Fellow there. Stephen’s latest books are the 2023 Wainwright-Prize-shortlisted Ten Birds that Changed the World (Guardian Faber) and The Starling: a Biography (Square Peg), the…
Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 31 by John Page
John Page was born in the West Riding, a proud Yorkshireman and was taught to play cricket left-handed “’cos it flummoxes t’ bowler, and buggers up t’ field.” He went to university in London and Leeds, and enjoyed (most of the time) attempting to teach young people that there’s a big wide world beyond the…