An easy amble with the Wild on the outskirts of Greater Manchester on the 13th day of my 30 Days Wild experience.

Breakfast shared with a pair of greenfinch, which were starting their day with high energy sunflower hearts.

An encounter with a less than wild rabbit - although Day 11 of my 30 Days Wild adventures began a tad earlier than that contemplative meeting.

A splash of rain brought about a spontaneous change on Day 10 of 30 Days Wild, as the sky above me filled with swift.

It sometimes seems that the story of the wild simply wants to write itself and tell its own story whilst I quietly move through its landscape.

Now that some of the crops are gaining some height, at last, it's always nice to know that for another day my personal audiologist had confirmed that my hearing is up to scratch at least in…

It’s Day 7 of my 30 Days Wild adventure – so it’s a cuppa, a bowl of cereal, an appreciation of my better half shopping in a changed world, then a wander onto Chat Moss.

Day six of 30 Days Wild and I wander west to look for the Wild which was quite easily found as it fell from the sky in bucketloads helped along by a driving westerly wind.

Were the seeds of my imagination set on their way by the squally rain showers that enjoyed their dominance of Day Five or was it just the product of a soggy head that gave today’s wild a seaside…

The wild today offered but a leaden sky which to some degree perhaps should have pleased me for it complemented my head’s sweep of grey that seems to have been further whitened by the recent run…