Voices From The Crow's Nest

(If you listen to the voiceover, apologies for my mild croak, I’ve been fending off a cold for a couple of days, which seems to have made the voiceover sound a wee bit different to normal! Sorry! [Plenty of elderberry tincture is keeping it at bay, however!]) Hello, it’s lovely to have you here. If you have no idea what this message is about, or why you are receiving it, head to this introductory...

(Apologies for my mild croak, I’ve been fending off a cold for a couple of days, which seems to have made my voice sound a wee bit different to normal! Sorry! [Plenty of elderberry tincture is keeping it at bay, however!]) This podcast is also available as a series of letters (technically emails, but I prefer to think of them as letters), with an introduction featuring navigation links for each po...

Hello, it’s lovely to have you here. If you have no idea what this message is about (perhaps you signed up to my mailing list as a part of a book giveaway?), or why you are receiving it, head to this introductory piece or the collated entries for Week One or Week Two of A Fall In Time. As the weeks turn to months, I shall keep an updated navigation section in the introductory post linked above, an...

This podcast is also available as a series of letters (technically emails, but I prefer to think of them as letters), with an introduction featuring navigation links for each post as I share them, lots of photos, and more: The link for this particular episode is here: https://alexandermcrow.substack.com/p/a-fall-in-time-week-three-2025 If you have enjoyed listening to this, please do leave a comme...

Hello, it’s lovely to have you here. If you have no idea what this message is about, or why you are receiving it, head to this introductory piece or the collated entries for Week One of A Fall In Time . As the weeks turn to months, I shall keep an updated navigation section in the introductory post and deliberately keep this introduction short, so you can get straight into the adventure. Without f...

This podcast is also available as a series of letters (technically emails, but I prefer to think of them as letters), with an introduction featuring navigation links for each post as I share them, lots of photos, and more: The link for this particular episode is here: https://alexandermcrow.substack.com/p/a-fall-in-time-week-two-2025 If you have enjoyed listening to this, please do leave a comment...

Hello and welcome to the first letter and, this year, podcast in this limited series, A Fall in Time . A Fall in Time is a limited, re-envisioned series from me, Alexander M Crow. Apart from sharing this adventure—the first time I spent months alone in the woods—I also share dispatches on the intersection of fiction, nature and place writing, and empowerment through ancestral skills. I would love...

This podcast, all about the first time I lived out in the woods for months, is also available as a series of letters (technically emails, but I prefer to think of them as letters), with an introduction featuring navigation links for each post as I share them, lots of photos, and more: https://alexandermcrow.substack.com/p/a-fall-in-time-introduction The link for this particular episode is here: ht...

Our lives are shaped by the paths we take, whether through choice, or by chance. Sometimes, this takes the form of the path not taken, sometimes that we follow. Often, both. This is the introduction to my forthcoming limited series, for the first time also available as a podcast, A Fall in Time. This series details the months I spent living alone in the woods of western Scotland, close to nature....

This is a narration of my first full essay on The Crow’s Nest since May 2025. I’ve shared other words elsewhere, but I have to say, I’m glad to be back—now with sound! To subscribe to my letter, head here: https://alexandermcrow.substack.com This essay discusses constructing a wall and levelling a mountain slope, all the while weaving this physical tale into one which is really discussing our worl...

Find and subscribe to the letter I mention over at Substack. I've been regularly sharing there for nearly six years: https://alexandermcrow.substack.com This episode is a brief introduction as to what to expect from the Voices From the Crow's Nest podcast. Talk of nature, ancestral skills, who I am, and a little more. With a squeaky chair but mostly relatively clear audio, I hope. Get full access...

I originally shared this on my Substack homepage only, back in September, 2025. Now, I think it is a good idea to send it out as a letter, as believe it contains a few points others might find useful. It also serves neatly as a way of looking at where I am now, in February, 2026, especially if read or listened to in conjunction with a piece entitled Where We Are, or Where Am I? If you are reading...

Our lives are shaped by the paths we take, whether through choice, or by chance. Sometimes, this takes the form of the path not taken, sometimes that we follow. Often, both. The idea of how our lives might be utterly different, hinging on just one little thing, is a popular theme, whether in the written word or romantic comedy movies. Back in 2010, I was working for the civil service in a northern...