A day in the Wilderness
It was exciting, and not a little nerve-wracking, to kick off proceedings in the Books Tent at Wilderness Festival in Oxfordshire, earlier this month. I was there to chat to...
It was exciting, and not a little nerve-wracking, to kick off proceedings in the Books Tent at Wilderness Festival in Oxfordshire, earlier this month. I was there to chat to...
[caption id="attachment_2021" align="aligncenter" width="225"] A box full of lovelies[/caption] Much excitement today as Marinel, the local DPD delivery man, arrived with this box containing my author copies of 'Beyond The Footpath:...
[caption id="attachment_2014" align="aligncenter" width="225"] Formby beach[/caption] I'm always really pleased when the National Trust ask me to write a guidebook about one of its stretches of coast. The NT looks after...
This is the cover of my new book which, although I've just finished writing it, is already on Amazon. So that means it's really going to be published next year....
Here it is, just in time for the warmer weather! The Tin Coast (Arvor Sten in Cornish) is a stretch of wild and jagged coastline in West Penwith, Cornwall. It...
Anyone with a compulsion for hand-crafted things, should head to From Britain With Love a website/directory of the best craftspeople in the UK. It is is a roll call of makers...
The handsome cover on my new book is by Brian Cook Batsford, the illustrator and publisher behind the Batsford guides of the 1930s. These books which captured the essence of...
This is a busy time of year for the Gower, that especially lovely peninsula in South Wales. Its glorious beaches attract many visitors, drawn by their expansive sandiness and surf-able...
The end of 2016 saw me heading to Cornwall's Tin Coast – that far-flung and ragged part of West Cornwall that is peppered with the workings of defunct tin mines...
March saw the publication of this handsome, weighty book. (Excuse the wonky picture taken on my kitchen table.) Which is very exciting for me as I wrote it, and, I...