Penumbrage

Many years ago I met two heroes of the American Civil rights Movement, Herb Shapiro and Judy Shapiro. only they never told me! Herb is dead now but I would…

Cancer, creativity and a family finding itself as it transitions from grief to joy. Sounds like a mini series. But it's real.

A journey through the native trees of Britain, the facts, the fiction and the dreams.

A poem for Twelfth Night inspired by The Twelve Days of Christmas and the bird life on Ormsgill Reservoir - or the Rezza as we know it in Barrow-in-Furness.

A poem for Christmas written in my new notebook with my new pen.

The Stanton family Christmas Newsletter 2022 with updates on Mike and Dee, our children Matthew and Katie and Basil the dog.

I wrote this poem yesterday. Today I am seventy. It is never too late. The inspiration came from a poetry workshop at Manchester Maggies on Thursday. Our usual leader, Clare…

It is the conker season, when the young and the young hearted scour parks and woodland floors for horse chestnuts. I have met a few people under the conker tree…

Black Combe belongs to the Furness Peninsula. It is our fell, our connection to the Lake District.

Since Covid has made Staycations a necessity for most of us, why not visit Barrow-in-Furness. We have a unique cultural, historical, archaeological and ecological heritage. But you don’t want to…