Walking to Cramond Island, film on Vimeo (2021)
Featuring the Dragon’s Teeth
“… concrete pyramids, much larger than the usual dragons’ teeth, were erected alongside the causeway during the Second World War to prevent enemy boats coming through the gap between Cramond and Cramond Island.” Anne Burgess
Guidelines for the February 2026 First Friday Walk (FFW)
Please note that this is a distal prompt, but you can, of course, arrange to walk in a couple or a group wherever you are.
Choose a place to walk and make work.
Find out the W3W/// location for your starting place (you will probably have a few options, so choose the one you like best or are most attracted to.)*
Store those 3 words in your mind / notebook / phone.
Set your timer and start walking. Stop after 15 minutes.
Choose one of the 3 words and use it to make an intervention (it can be a photo(s), conversation, drawing, rubbing, poem, thought, installation … whatever you like). After long enough, walk for a further 15 minutes.
Choose a second word and make an intervention as before (or differently).
Repeat a third time.
Either in the open air or back at home, compose your work in whatever way makes sense.
Share with someone or on social media #walkingtheland #firstfridaywalk
The title (or subtitle of your work) will be the W3W/// and something of your choice.
The W3W/// app or a text of some sort (poem, newspaper article etc)*
Materials of your choice for making
A timer, watch, or phone
*If you do not already have the W3W/// app on your phone, you can download it before you leave, from the Playstore or Applestore, look it up on the internet or on a laptop. If the whole W3W/// thing is too technology-focused for you, choose the 15th, 30th and 45th words from a text of your choice.
If you want to stay out longer, repeat with a second W3W/// address.
If you are part of another Walking the Land project, you could choose your Deep Encounters place to do this FFW, or walk at a distance with your Walking in Pairs partner (perhaps you decide in advance to swap W3W addresses, or use a mix of them).
Happy Walking!
A walk to celebrate the Autumn Equinox on Monday 22 September 2025, 5.30-7.15pm meeting at The Pitt. Booking link
At the Autumn Equinox, there is balance between the daylight and the dark. As we celebrate and embrace this momentary state of equilibrium, let us take a deep breath. Transformation and renewal will come with the start of the season, so this is a good time to pause, walk, and notice what’s around us.
Meeting at The Pitt, Granton at 5.30pm, we’ll say hello, then walk in pairs towards Silverknowes, and back again. When we get back to our starting place, we’ll have some refreshment and discuss what we noticed. The event will end at sunset (7.12pm). Let’s hope it’s a clear night!
This is a flat walk on a hard surface and therefore wheel-friendly, whether buggy, wheelchair, stick or other. There are stands to lock up your bicycle at the start. Buses stop some way away: try 16, 19, 22 and get off either at Granton Square or the foot of Waterfront Avenue ///nail.served.dizzy or near the top of Spiers Bruce Way (bus top acid.pulse.cloth) and walk down.
I’m describing this walk as a Community Walk because we will walk together. All adults (and accompanied children) plus dogs are welcome. You do not have to live in Granton!
Please bring refreshments – I will provide chocolate/fruit.
This event is free to attend, though a donation of £5 per person would be gratefully received.
A walk for 4WCoP25 (the 4th World Congress of Psychogeography 2025), the theme of which is, ‘After That, This’
You can walk in person with me in Swansea, Wales at 3pm on Saturday 11th October (this is the booking link for the whole Congress which is free of charge. There is no individual link for this walk). Alternatively, you can join us wherever you are in the world, alone or with a group, with the prompt below.
‘After That’ (the past) and before we get to ‘This’ (now), we must pass through a portal. This walk will seek gateways of all shapes and sizes. It’s for those who haven’t yet arrived in, or are curious about, the present moment.
Moving through a portico, from one side to the other, sometimes in conversation, sometimes silent, the present will be revealed. Carrying with you a paper portal sporting the words, Gateway to … , it’s the walking through and under these transitionary arches that will help us finish the sentence.
This event is free of charge.
This walk as taken in March 2025. It was the penultimate day of a 10-day hike from Chepstow, on the Welsh-English border, to Cheltenham. My artwork was in the Walking the Land’s Line(s) of Enquiry exhibition at the Hardwick Gallery, which opened on 7 March, and I was attending a Symposium at the University of Gloucestershire there on 21st.
You may be interested in this companion blog post: Walking with Ants
Walking without a donkey 