Tom Pickard

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Hartside Cafe in a Helm Wind

The Helm Wind is a north-easterly "named Wind" in England that scours the southwest slopes of Cumbria's Cross Fell.

Helm Wind over Hartside

While Mr Pickard was cowering behind a draughty limestone dyke on Blackfell, a ‘dandy longlegs’ clung to his journal, sheltering from a 40mph wind.

Tom Pickard’s Fiends Fell is published by Flood Editions. His Winter Migrants was published by Carcanet. He is currently working on an extended Fiends Fell and on a stage version of Ballad of Jamie Allan.