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Penton Hook Island Has Been Closed Because Of Dangerous Trees And I Realised How Much I Rely On A Path I Don’t Even Own – A riverside diary entry on losing access to a favourite walking spot near Staines, the strange grief of a closed footpath, and what it means to depend on land that was never really yours to take for granted
Five Drones Crashed Into The Thames During A Light Show Rehearsal And I Watched The Whole Thing From My Kitchen Window – A riverside diary entry on witnessing a genuinely bizarre technical failure over the water, what it’s like living somewhere things occasionally fall out of the sky, and why the river always seems to absorb the city’s stranger moments
Work Has Finally Started On Removing “Wet Wipe Island” And I Have Complicated Feelings About Celebrating The Death Of A Landmark – A riverside diary entry on the long-awaited clearance of the Thames’s most notorious sandbank, what it actually reveals about how we treat the river, and why I’ll oddly miss the thing I’ve spent years complaining about
The Actual Source Of The Thames Dried Up For The First Time Since 1976 And It Made Me Rethink Everything I Assumed About This River – A riverside diary entry on the drought’s effect on the river’s origins far upstream, feeling suddenly small next to a waterway you thought you understood completely, and what “bone dry” actually looks like at the source
I Finally Booked A Tour Of Isleworth Ait And Discovered A Tiny Wild Island I’d Been Looking At My Entire Life Without Ever Actually Visiting – A riverside diary entry on finally setting foot on a nature reserve island hidden in plain sight, the strange guilt of ignoring something right in front of you, and what a few undisturbed acres in the middle of the Thames actually feel like