Nick Acheson
@themarshtit.bsky.social
Nature conservation. Low carbon living. Classical music and opera. Theatre and books. Gruesome lefty vegan tree-hugger. Happiest when muddy.
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🦢 🦢 courtship on a towpath.
I’m here for it.
I’m here for it.
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
🦢 🦢 courtship on a towpath.
I’m here for it.
I’m here for it.
I was going to send this to you :)
November 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I was going to send this to you :)
On these Natural History shelves at Norwich @waterstones.bsky.social I’ve just counted 38 authors I’ve interviewed.
No wonder I never have time for Dickens!
No wonder I never have time for Dickens!
November 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
On these Natural History shelves at Norwich @waterstones.bsky.social I’ve just counted 38 authors I’ve interviewed.
No wonder I never have time for Dickens!
No wonder I never have time for Dickens!
A garbage gull at a Greggs
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
A garbage gull at a Greggs
It’s not been much of a botanical week for me, but here is a brave late harebell in the dunes at NWT’s stunning Holme Dunes reserve.
November 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
It’s not been much of a botanical week for me, but here is a brave late harebell in the dunes at NWT’s stunning Holme Dunes reserve.
‘Oh go on, writing that chapter can’t be more important than my walk…’
November 16, 2025 at 9:45 AM
‘Oh go on, writing that chapter can’t be more important than my walk…’
Our first sea swim this year was in March.
Perhaps today’s will be our last, though the water is still frighteningly mild.
Perhaps today’s will be our last, though the water is still frighteningly mild.
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Our first sea swim this year was in March.
Perhaps today’s will be our last, though the water is still frighteningly mild.
Perhaps today’s will be our last, though the water is still frighteningly mild.
Memories of summer: knapweed broomrape seedhead (and leaves of next summer’s greater knapweed) on chalk above the northwest Norfolk coast.
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Memories of summer: knapweed broomrape seedhead (and leaves of next summer’s greater knapweed) on chalk above the northwest Norfolk coast.
Weather-wise, what a difference a day makes. I hope wherever you are, under whatever clouds, this can be a good week.
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Weather-wise, what a difference a day makes. I hope wherever you are, under whatever clouds, this can be a good week.
From Blakeney Point today for this week’s #wildflowerhour: thrift, common ragwort, common cat’s-ear and the seedheads of this summer’s sea kale.
November 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
From Blakeney Point today for this week’s #wildflowerhour: thrift, common ragwort, common cat’s-ear and the seedheads of this summer’s sea kale.
Sea glass on Blakeney Point today
November 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Sea glass on Blakeney Point today
I found this tiny shoe in the ice at 3,500m ASL in the Himalayas. It lives by my fireplace.
November 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I found this tiny shoe in the ice at 3,500m ASL in the Himalayas. It lives by my fireplace.
‘I can well rember when every cottage had a horse shoe nailed on the door, and a stone with a hole through it. That was to bring them luck, and preevent Witches from hurting them.’
Legendary Norfolk poacher Frederick Rolfe quoted in I Walked by Night (edited by Lilias Rider Haggard)
Legendary Norfolk poacher Frederick Rolfe quoted in I Walked by Night (edited by Lilias Rider Haggard)
November 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
‘I can well rember when every cottage had a horse shoe nailed on the door, and a stone with a hole through it. That was to bring them luck, and preevent Witches from hurting them.’
Legendary Norfolk poacher Frederick Rolfe quoted in I Walked by Night (edited by Lilias Rider Haggard)
Legendary Norfolk poacher Frederick Rolfe quoted in I Walked by Night (edited by Lilias Rider Haggard)
Thrift was flowering by my feet as I widdled and merlined
November 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Thrift was flowering by my feet as I widdled and merlined
I just added merlin to my ‘while having a widdle on the Point’ list
November 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I just added merlin to my ‘while having a widdle on the Point’ list
The worn remnants of Second World War defences, washed up on Blakeney Point.
Lest we forget.
Lest we forget.
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The worn remnants of Second World War defences, washed up on Blakeney Point.
Lest we forget.
Lest we forget.
Geese in my gutters
November 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Geese in my gutters
It’s an autumn thing 🍂 🍁
November 4, 2025 at 10:58 AM
It’s an autumn thing 🍂 🍁
Some old photos of me - on different projects and trips, in different places - resurfaced today.
Ten years have passed. Still scrawny. Still pretending to have a job, gazing at wild things.
Ten years have passed. Still scrawny. Still pretending to have a job, gazing at wild things.
November 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Some old photos of me - on different projects and trips, in different places - resurfaced today.
Ten years have passed. Still scrawny. Still pretending to have a job, gazing at wild things.
Ten years have passed. Still scrawny. Still pretending to have a job, gazing at wild things.