Month: August 2026
A global satire league table, filed somewhere a lot closer to the shoreline than most editorial meetings…
Harper-Thames on riverside patience, persistence, and one very determined man in a wetsuit There’s a stretch of…
Harper-Thames on a riverside walk that turned into an unplanned scramble across mud she really should have…
Harper-Thames on a genuinely unnecessary but deeply satisfying bit of riverside research into which crossing has the…
Harper-Thames on territorial feelings toward a specific spot of public seating and the stranger who dared sit…
Harper-Thames on an unplanned lesson in stillness courtesy of one deeply unbothered bird I spotted a heron…
A riverside diary entry on losing access to a favourite walking spot near Staines, the strange grief…
A riverside diary entry on witnessing a genuinely bizarre technical failure over the water, what it’s like…
A riverside diary entry on the long-awaited clearance of the Thames’s most notorious sandbank, what it actually…
A riverside diary entry on the drought’s effect on the river’s origins far upstream, feeling suddenly small…
