Stick #2

Stick No2 was placed in an exhibition space at Coed Hills Eco Arts Centre where they hold artist residencies, educational programmes and events. The farm is based in 180 acres of Vale landscape www.coedhills.co.uk. Stick No2 was last seen in early September when I received a photo from Ti Sharp who took the stick round the exhibition. Ti then left the stick leaning against the gate on the site....

Stick #3

Stick number 3 taken to mainland Europe with Peter & Annette Owen, Catrin, Geraint, Nina From Cardigan Wales. The family make their first trip abroad to Holland, walked and cycling round the coast near Leiden. The Dutch were very friendly, had a fantastic time. The stick was left abandoned; hopefully to be taken on it’s next adventure? Who has stick Number 3?...

Stick #4

Brother John Bodenham takes stick to Cleobury Mortimer, England. Ruby waiting Pat & Paul Morgan's walk on the Malvern Hills, 19th August 2007. The first picture is of The Obelisk at Eastnor Park & the second is Pat handing the stick on. Stick #5

I took the stick on my usual walk. I do it at least twice a week – often more. It usually takes me an hour and a half – plenty of time for thinking, if that’s what you’re into. Sometimes my random or trivial thoughts are shelved and I think about Zen koans. This doesn’t mean I’ve cracked them yet, or should I say they haven’t cracked me… yet. Walking with Pete’s stick triggered off a memory of some stick-related koans. They (and lots more) come from “Zen Flesh, Zen Bones”, published by Penguin, and compiled by Paul Reps...

Stick #6

Bed,Thando and 3 year old Charmaine from Bethesda North Wales find stick 6 and take it for its first walk up the mountain. Hi Ben, Thando, Charmaine - thanks for leaving the stick for me to find. It's in my porch in Fort William awaiting the right moment for a new adventure.... It's coming soon I think! Stick #7

Stick No 7 on its first outing with Don, stuck into very recent soil near Southwold, Suffolk on a cliff edge that probably will have already collapsed into the sea by the time that this image is posted, as the cliff edge is receding by several meters each year. A truly "here today, gone tomorrow" sort of place. Stick doing an interesting walk near Covehythe, Suffolk, as the beach is not just a beach now, but was also ...

Stick #8

Angoulême - Jarnac, sur la Charante Juillet 2007 Navigating the Charente waterways, sparkling moments and distorted reflections. Wading against the current, a refreshing green flow. Pilfering plums from laden boughs stooping over the banks. A lavender grove alive with buzzing bees buzzing, unmistak...

Stick #9

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Stick #10

I found 'stick 10' in Pete's Eats, a great Cafe in Llanberis North Wales. A few of us met there with the aim of walking and looking for the Llanberis Bomb Depot. I will remain anonymous, as I'm unsure if we were allowed to visit the site! After a short work from Llanberis we came across a deep hidden hole consisting of a number of open pits, linked together by tunnels. We scrambled down into a space the size of ...

Stick #11

Pete left Stick Number 11 with us in Crickhowell at the start of the summer - it sat in our hall all through the floods in July, on into the autumn and into winter. I don't know quite why it took us so long to take it out on a walk, since we walk most days - maybe we felt that the stick needed the whole family for its first foray. Finally on the 3rd of November, we resolved to take the s...