Annie O'Garra Worsley

A 5* instant classic of British nature writing. Windswept isn’t only enjoyable and enriching; it contains some of the most striking descriptions of nature I’ve ever read. Horatio Clare, The Telegraph. Windswept's old strainer post & sunset view to the Outer Hebrides.

@LizWorsley @BBCNews @itvnews @Channel4News @alextomo @BBCJustinR 🤬

@RedRiverCroft @BBCNews @itvnews @Channel4News @alextomo @BBCJustinR Peaked overnight and has risen again this morning way above safe levels, just in time for school drop off

Dear @BBCNews @itvnews @Channel4News @alextomo @BBCJustinR Why is no-one talking about the shockingly poor #airquality in NW England due to Manchester fires? PM2.5 levels are dreadful. This WILL cause health emergencies, if not already doing so. Pollution+ heat = excess deaths.

@RedRiverCroft @BBCNews @itvnews @Channel4News @alextomo @BBCJustinR Alarmingly poor air quality recorded in our village primarily school.

@LizWorsley @BBCNews @itvnews @Channel4News @alextomo @BBCJustinR 😢

@earthFgardener Well, quite. Even on days when air temperatures & weather patterns are 'normal' particulates from fires have negative health impacts.

Why does no one ever talk about the air pollution caused by so-called ‘controlled’ burns on moorland - fires set in the interests of a tiny, wealthy, bird-shooting elite that gets into the lungs of the many. Perhaps business interests produce a different kind of smoke.

@cm_bagot @BBCNews @itvnews @Channel4News @alextomo @BBCJustinR 😞 Yes, that's the stock answer advice. I just wish there was more openness & honesty about air pollution generally. But this toxic mixture of heat & particulates is even more deadly. Climate change plus localised human activities= community harms.

@RedRiverCroft @BBCNews @itvnews @Channel4News @alextomo @BBCJustinR just mentioned to keep windows and doors closed. rather basic but maybe someone is sat in a smoke filled home🙄

@lexmedeiros @theiaincameron No 🤗

@RedRiverCroft @theiaincameron Are you related to British anthropologist Peter Worsley?

Want to know why the island of New Guinea has a kink in the otherwise pistol-straight border between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea? 1/2

@nancymilho74833 @theiaincameron Environmental change (including human impacts) using lake sediments as archives.

@RedRiverCroft @theiaincameron Horticulture? Anthropology?

The BBC’s latest audience figures show it’s reaching more than half a billion people worldwide — 502 million — for the first time in its history. That’s more than 6% of the entire world’s population. It’s a huge achievement for Britain’s global influence.

@bogtrotter99 @RonDaviesPhoto Yes! Let's have a gathering!

@RedRiverCroft @RonDaviesPhoto Hand up: I can come, please?!!

Amongst the Sea Holly I spotted this quite rare white pyramidal orchid on yesterday’s Sefton Coast Walk between Hightown and Crosby, plenty of hedge brown butterflies attending. Also, @RedRiverCroft someone has built a log seat from driftwood and stones rescued from the beach!

I have seen more orchids this year than usual - and @RedRiverCroft has posted a great blog about them.... facts or folklore, they are beautiful, magical plants!

@SarahMRomance Aren't they gorgeous 🥰

@johnniewrightie We can only try and hope we're doing the best 🤗

@RedRiverCroft It must be great to know that you are doing so much right for the health of the Croft 👍😁

Moonwort and an orchid extravaganza. A short post about the latest goings on here on Red River Croft. Happy reading 🤗 …fromasmallcroftbythesea.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/orc…

Thank you Anna Bonet & @theipaper for recommending #Windswept. What a wonderful crowd to be part of! (These incredible writers and their fabulous books!) And a lovely thing to see 🤗 Happy weekend everyone! #travelwriting #naturewriting #readingcommunity

Another new find on the croft! Moonwort (Botrychium lunaria), a fascinating plant which obtains all its nutrients from underground fungi, oh my.

@SarahMRomance Yes, we are 🥰🥰

@RedRiverCroft Beautiful - we have baby Oystercatchers here! We are so lucky!

Watching baby ringed plovers on the Erradale summer solstice shore...