This fictional creative piece allows Wull to talk about the loss of fish life in the Moray firth in the context of 'shifting baseline syndrome'. It is the fourth in a series of 12 essays on 'Shifting baselines' looking at different ecosystems and how they have become depleted in living memory. They are written in dialect where possible to acknowledge the language around nature that is being lost concurrently with nature itself. Sit like, min. Sit ye doon out of the wind, for

This fictional creative piece allows he voice of Edna to talk about her beloved fenland in the context of 'shifting baseline syndrome'. It is the second in a series of 12 essays on 'Shifting baselines' looking at different ecosystems and how they have become depleted in living memory. They are written in dialect where possible to acknowledge the language around nature that is being lost concurrently with nature itself. You want to know what the fen was. Well. Sit you down, th

Author's note:- I became fascinated with dendritic chalk streams when I first moved to Sussex and learned of their uniqueness. This fictional creative piece allows he voice of cyril to talk about similar streams in Hampshire in the context of 'shifting baseline syndrome'. It is the first in a series of 12 essays on 'Shifting baselines' looking at different ecosystems and how they have become depleted in living memory. They are written in dialect where possible to acknowledge