Dr Amy-Jane Beer

Thank you Colin (and for the reminder that my next is due!)

Thank Nic. Good to be back nattering 😊

Coming to this late, but do have a watery listen to @jenratcliffe.bsky.social and @amyjanebeer.bsky.social...

‘Grow your heart to the size of the world.’ It is a risky business, falling in love ...

Lovely thoughts on daring to love what can be lost by @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/hughwarw...

Love you all!

LIVE SOON: Water Book Club Live with Dr Amy Jane Beer & Jen Ratcliffe Starting Feb 26 at 2:00 PM EST

The lives and condition of our waterways are so intimately connected with our own, this conversation could go almost anywhere. Live chat this evening on writing rivers… and acting for them. Free to join open.substack.com/live-stream/...

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I wrote about the Great Wold Valley and in The Flow and have just written a Country Diary about the Wold Cottage meteorite, with a nod to the magical and magnificent #SmallProphets.

You can read here www.theguardian.com/profile/amy-...

A meteorite can fall almost anywhere, but having done so, they invite very specific focus. They point to the ploughed field; the polar wasteland; the ocean floor; the suburban cul-de-sac and they say

Look again.
Nowhere is nowhere.
Everywhere is special.

As if that wasn’t enough, on a winter day in 1795, amid strange thunder and lightning, a dark object hurtled from the sky and slammed into the Earth, narrowly missing a ploughman who was nearing the end of his shift.

You know how it feels like some places are just special? Wold Newton is one. Marked by a very large chalk spring feeding the ever mysterious Gypsy Race, which runs on flanked by an incredible abundance of ancient monuments.

Thank you Lynne! Do explore. These lands have so many stories to tell. The air and the rock and the water are thick with them, and we living creatures are the way they get dreamt and told.

Join us next Thursday for a conversation about all things fluvial: rivers, hydrology, ecology, mythology, adventure, literature, restoration, responsibility…

#rivers #theflow #waterbookclub

A banner with a water background and a library-like stamp depicting a book and circular title 'Water Book Club' with subtitle underneath 'Live Q&A with, Dr Amy-Jane Beer, February 26th 7pm. Then we see a jade green book cover depicting flowing water with 'Amy-Jane Beer, THE FLOW, Rivers, water and wildness' on the right.

Delighted to share the wonderful @amyjanebeer.bsky.social will join us for a live Q&A, focused on her award winning book The Flow - for our first Water Book Club!

This is currently set for February 26th at 7pm 🌊

RSVP here: calendarlink.com/event/Yv6nE
[FREE Event]

#NatureWriting #UKCanals #Water

Bishopthorpe Parish Council want to sell a small wildlife oasis hosting rare wildflowers like Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem to a developer. This field belongs to the people of Bish who cherish its wildlife. Please sign this petition to stop them doing this. Thanks 😊 c.org/syGKBRcGBY

Meanwhile, I recognise that grief is having a wider moment, across the world for many reasons. It’s mixed with rage and fear but… pay attention to the grief. We feel it because we love. It’s what makes us human. It’s what makes us reach for connection and light. Keep doing that. xxx 6/6

No doubt there is more to come. Writing is where I feel still myself, most lucid and alive. I’ve been on a socials break since October and will continue to be limiting the energy I spend here. But I’ll be back to share more work in time. 5/6

I’ve written briefly about the latter here. www.theguardian.com/profile/amy-...

Somehow, between waves that threaten to obliterate everything, there are moments of almost incandescent light. When love and gratitude push back, buoy up, give something to turn one face to. Such moments come in the kindness of others, the turn of the moon & stars and the presence of birds.

Losing her so young and in such a way is just unfathomable. We are a strong family, we have endured other losses, and we’ll absorb this one. But the sadness right now is like having your home flooded. It tries to obliterate everything.

And yet…

Hello all. As those of you who also follow me on Instagram may know, A few days before Christmas we lost my precious sister to a savagely aggressive cancer, which took her in the space of month. Nic was the best and kindest of people. Having her as my little sister was an extraordinary blessing.

A very welcome addition to the Country Diary stable. Expect perspectives long in time and space, fantastic natural knowledge and absolute top tier wordsmithery from @drmjwarren.bsky.social 💚

Thank you!

Both the weather and the news are grim so I've decided to float away on the couch for the afternoon and go with "The Flow". @amyjanebeer.bsky.social

Magic Cat snaps up Amy-Jane Beer's 'enchanting' new children’s book

Magic Cat has snapped up Amy-Jane Beer’s "enchanting" new children’s book, "inviting young readers to embark on a thought-provoking voyage through the world’s most vital element — water". A River Running Through You will publish in May 2026 👇 #BookSky

Jamie will be sorely missed this weekend at @kendalmountainfest.bsky.social, but it also provides an opportunity for us to remember him. Please chip in what you are able, and share this appeal as widely as you can. It would mean so much. #TeamJamie

Team Jamie! Help Bea Normington raise money to support Cumbria Wildlife Trust

Bea has come up with a way to honour Jamie which will do lasting good. Please visit her Just Giving page for @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social & @pancreaticcanuk.bsky.social, supporting the wildlife he loved, & fighting the bastard disease that stole him from us.
www.justgiving.com/team/teamjam...

Jamie was part of an extraordinary partnership. In his wife Bea he had not only a soulmate but an equal in spirit, intellect and personality. It’s hard to imagine two people who so thoroughly deserved the good fortune of meeting and marrying one another.

In the end he was taken brutally fast. And yet he remains undiminished. At his funeral, hearing him described in the words of friends, family, colleagues, & those he’d inspired, he became larger than life. I wondered how the did all that, but it was simply by being wholly himself.