{"id":27273,"date":"2023-06-01T16:43:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T14:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/?post_type=purple_issue&p=27273"},"modified":"2023-06-02T17:28:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T15:28:40","slug":"lazy-days-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/2023\/06\/01\/lazy-days-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Lazy Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
June<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n

Lazy days<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

BOOKS \u203a <\/span> TV \u203a <\/span> RADIO \u203a <\/span> FILM \u203a <\/span> LETTERS \u203a <\/span> PUZZLES <\/span>
Reviews editors: Margaret Bartlett, Maria Hodson <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n

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To reconnect, take time to notice and observe small details \u2013 awildflower, foraging bees, the shape of leaves \u2013 on your next woodland walk <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

DO YOU FEEL PART OF NATURE?<\/h4>\n\n

A scientist gives practical tips on how to fix our broken relationship with the natural world <\/p>\n\n

BOOK <\/span><\/h5>\n\n

RECONNECTION <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

BY MILES RICHARDSON, PELAGIC PUBLISHING, \u00a317.99 (HB) <\/p>\n\n

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A 2021 survey found that just 10% of us feel that we are part of nature. In this compelling book, Miles Richardson asks how our relationship with nature became so broken, why it matters and how we can fix it. There have been numerous books in recent years extolling how good nature is for us. It\u2019s true, but Richardson is <\/span>concerned that promoting nature as \u201ca pill to pop when things are not so good\u201d perpetuates the human-nature divide; continuing to portray the natural world as a resource or service provider, or at best, a pleasant backdrop. He argues that this separation is at the root of the climate and ecological crises we face.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Richardson is a scientist, and his research at the University of Derby focuses on \u2018nature connectedness\u2019 \u2013 our emotional responses, beliefs and attitudes towards nature. This isn\u2019t about time spent in nature, it\u2019s about what you do there. He \u2013 and others \u2013 have found a clear link between nature connectedness, human wellbeing and pro-environmental behaviour, which offers a path to healing the relationship with nature in a way that\u2019s not just good for us, but for nature, too. \u201cThere\u2019s a need to spend time with nature,\u201d he writes. He offers practical, evidence based ways to do this. <\/p>\n\n

Reconnection <\/em>is meticulously researched, citing studies and statistics. Richardson\u2019s manifesto for re-establishing our connection to nature is heartfelt and never dry. And it couldn\u2019t be more needed than now. As he asserts: \u201cWhen we find our place in nature, life makes sense.\u201d Sam Pyrah, journalist and author <\/p>\n\n

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MUSIC <\/span><\/h5>\n\n

WILD WET WORLD <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

BY COSMO SHELDRAKE, TARDIGRADE RECORDS, \u00a35 <\/p>\n\n

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Cosmo Sheldrake uses instruments of all kinds<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n

The third album from contemporary nature composer Cosmo Sheldrake, Wild Wet World <\/em>is a beautiful and well-crafted collection of musical journeys using underwater wildlife sounds, interspersed with electronic and acoustic elements. It follows in the footsteps of his second album Wake up Calls, <\/em>where he used the sounds of endangered birds to ingenious effect. As is Sheldrake\u2019s style, the captured sounds are mostly organic and easily recognisable. Along with sperm whale clicks, blowhole noises and orca calls, Sheldrake opens with his own warm voice in \u2018Bathed in Sound\u2019, an accessible entry point, before diving into the richness of the ocean. <\/p>\n\n

Sheldrake\u2019s brilliance lies in his ability to capture a mood using animals as orchestral instruments. As we become increasingly aware of the damage we are causing to our seas, Wild Wet World <\/em>gives us a chance to pause and marvel at the incredible life forms that inhabit it now. Not only does it deliver a powerful message, but you will want to sink back into its beauty again and again. <\/p>\n\n

Tanya Jackson, online editor <\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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BOOK <\/span><\/h5>\n\n

THE GRANITE KINGDOM <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

BY TIM HANNIGAN, HEAD OF ZEUS, \u00a327.99 (HB) <\/p>\n\n

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Granite sea-cliffs such as these at Bosigran, West Penwith, are the geological bedrock of Cornish culture <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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Cornwall. No other English county exerts as powerful an imaginative pull as England\u2019s westernmost peninsula. It\u2019s a land of idyllic sandy beaches and fishing villages, of Arthurian legend and Celtic saints, of smugglers and wreckers, and countless other clich\u00e9s propagated by the Cornish Tourist Board, the novels of Daphne du Maurier and TV series, such as Poldark <\/em>and Doc <\/em>Martin. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n

For Tim Hannigan, Cornwall is a very different county. He should know; he was born on its westernmost tip and spent his childhood there before leaving to discover the world beyond its borders of the Tamar and the sea. In the summer of 2021, he returned to write The Granite Kingdom. <\/em>Subtitled <\/span>A <\/em>Cornish <\/em>Journey, <\/em>the book is Hannigan\u2019s attempt to pin down what Cornwall, and being Cornish, is today. Tracing a circuitous route from the River Tamar to his home near Penzance, he roams the county on foot, stitching together not only its geography but its histories and communities, while disentangling fact from myth, folk from folklore.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Cornwall\u2019s fishing and tin mining industries, prehistoric remains and tourist hotspots, language and literature are investigated as Hannigan tramps over moors, along coastlines and through ancient fields enclosed with stone hedges, until he reaches his own granite kingdom of Penwith. <\/p>\n\n

Here, among the boulders, the gorse and the heather, Hannigan finally discovers what it means to be Cornish \u2013 an identity as intangible as the mists rolling in off the Atlantic Ocean. <\/p>\n\n

Gail Simmons, nature writer <\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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CATCH-UP TV <\/span><\/h5>\n\n

SIMON REEVE RETURNS <\/strong>TO CORNWALL<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

AVAILABLE ON IPLAYER <\/p>\n\n

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After filming Cornwall <\/em>with <\/em>Simon <\/em>Reeve <\/em>in the pandemic summer of 2020, the documentary maker travels back to the county to see how local people are faring in the less touristy winter season. <\/p>\n\n

He starts by revisiting Don Gardner, who set up Corrnwall\u2019s first independent food bank in former mining town Camborne, to find volunteers packing thousands of Christmas boxes, as demand for food bank help is higher than ever in the midst of the cost of living crisis. In a quest to find out why some areas of Cornwall are among the poorest in northern Europe, he travels to surf town Newquay to visit Sandy Lodge Hotel, a business now crippled by soaring energy bills. There are no tourists staying \u2013 instead, the council is renting rooms as emergency housing for families unable to find homes due to the region\u2019s chronic housing shortage, compounded by high rents and too many seasonal holiday lets. Simon meets staff from a local charity, which is busier than ever helping families cover food, clothing and housing costs. <\/p>\n\n

Simon finds that, while 70% of Cornish land is farmed, tourism and hospitality \u2013 a low-paid sector \u2013 is still the region\u2019s biggest employer. He wonders if this is why so many working people are unable to make ends meet? A vital, eye opening look at the realities of living in a tourist honeypot. <\/p>\n\n

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BOOK <\/span><\/h5>\n\n

THE SWIMMER: THE WILD LIFE OF ROGER DEAKIN <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

BY PATRICK BARKHAM, HAMISH HAMILTON, \u00a320 (HB) <\/p>\n\n

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Many swimmers were inspired by Deakin <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Roger Deakin\u2019s entrancing book Waterlog <\/em> played a significant part in the modern revival of the outdoor swimming movement. Those of us who read it felt as though we submerged with him in Britain\u2019s chilly lakes, hidden streams and secret pools. As we read, we were roused first to find watery adventures of our own and, later, to seek deeper knowledge of our most treasured natural environments. <\/span><\/p>\n\n

But what about Deakin the author? Which streams of life inspired this man to explore? From which wells did his deep affinity with nature spring? In The Swimmer, <\/em>Patrick Barkham helps us understand the man behind the book and appreciate why a spirit so deeply rooted in a place \u2013 Walnut Tree Farm in Suffolk \u2013 chose to adventure so often away from it. <\/p>\n\n

Roger Deakin died at the age of 63 but was a prolific lifelong writer. Threads of memory from his notes, letters and recordings have been delicately pulled together in this book. The <\/em>Swimmer <\/em>is as close as we\u2019ll get to the memoir this intriguing man never wrote. That Barkham has chosen to write in Deakin\u2019s own voice, each chapter interspersed with wry comments from his friends and family, gives this \u2018biography\u2019 an air that is as respectful as it is irreverent. <\/p>\n\n

In this homage to a complicated but at the same time simple soul, you\u2019ll meet the boy, the youth and the man. And, like the author, you\u2019ll come away wishing you had known him yourself. <\/p>\n\n

Fi Darby, outdoors writer <\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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Q&A <\/span><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

STORIES OF MIDSUMMER <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In his book Telling <\/em>the <\/em>Seasons, <\/em>storyteller Martin Maudsley has folk tales, traditions and recipes for each month of the year. We ask Martin how he celebrates June\u2019s summer solstice <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you have a favourite story about the summer solstice?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

I love telling a creation myth called \u2018Dawn and Dusk\u2019 at this time of year, about a young man and woman chosen by the Sky God to assist with the movements of the sun. Eventually, while performing their heavenly duties, they fall in love. The Sky God arranges for them to be together for one night of the year \u2013 summer solstice \u2013 when the air is warm and scented with flowers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What British folklore is associated with midsummer? <\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In ancient Celtic mythology, the seasonal year is presided over by two opposing archetypal characters: the Oak King and the Holly King. The Oak King rules the waxing year, or the light half, born at winter solstice and growing to his full strength at summer solstice in June. However, at this point, the Oak King gives way to the Holly King just as the sun begins its slow descent through the waning year and the year enters its dark seasons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are there any summer solstice customs that still endure in the UK? <\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Many prehistoric stone circles, such as Stonehenge, were constructed to mark the rising sun at summer solstice. Plenty of people still choose to visit standing stones and other ancient monuments at this time of year; with midsummer magic in the air. Near where I live in Bridport, Dorset AONB recently commissioned a brand new stone circle, where locals now gather each year to celebrate the longest day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is your favourite food to forage in June? <\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Frothy white elderflowers flourish in June, filling the air with their distinctive fragrance. Each year I gather enough to make a batch of elderflower Champagne \u2013 the queen of homemade booze. They\u2019re also tasty to eat and the June chapter of my book includes a recipe for elderflower fritters from Matthew Pennington of The Ethicurean restaurant. According to tradition, it\u2019s wise to ask permission of the Elder Mother before picking her flowers.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you make the most of midsummer\u2019s night? <\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Midsummer\u2019s Eve, or around then, is the perfect time to stay awake until late and savour the sweetness of a warm summer\u2019s night. If the weather is dry, I\u2019ll sleep outside without a tent, and have a glass of last year\u2019s elderflower wine to toast the occasion. There\u2019s nothing better than falling asleep with starry eyes, lulled by the sounds of nocturnal wildlife. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Telling the Seasons <\/strong><\/em>
by Martin Maudsley is published by History Press (\u00a315.99). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photos: Naturepl.com; Flora Wallace, Alex Board<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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