Journeys

The author, now retired, worked as a Primary school teacher and a Secondary school teacher of English and Drama, after which he spent a year at the Laban Art of Movement Studio, studying Dance. He then moved into Higher Education and taught Dance and Drama for twenty years before gaining a PhD in Teaching and Learning with New Technologies and running the Master's Programme at the University of Worcester for ten years. This centred on Creative Approaches to Research Methods and included the supervision of PhDs and Master's Dissertations.

Part One A Dream of Islands; Bocca Della Verita; Eclipse; Bardsey Pilgrim; Ultima Thule; Seven Days: Badia De Pollenca, Mallorca; Hebridean Holy Days; Carpe Diem; Days of Abundance on The Isle of Wight; Part Two Elysian Lockdown; Early Days; Herd Instinct; Feathered Friends, Frogs and Fish; Territorial Imperative: Avon Meadows, Pershore; The Bliss of Solitude: The Forest of Dean; Virginia; Ode to Joy: Hartlebury Common; Being There: The Clent Hills; Scribbly Jacks and Alouettes: Prestbury Hill, Cleeve Common and Cleeve Hill; Colours: The Purlieus of Grimley Gravel Pits; Caravaggio and the Brown Hairstreak: Grafton Wood; Landfill Thrill: Throckmorton; Solitary Sojourn: Upper Hollowfields Farm; From Lesser Stitchwort to Autumn Lady's Tresses: Hollybed Farm Meadows and Castlemorton Common; The Unmasked and the Masked: Sutton Park; Indian Summer; Into Autumn; A Reflective Bricolage; Notes; Acknowledgements