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At the year’s midnight
A winter night in the Marshwood Vale. Written for Dorset Life magazine December issue. The Marshwood Vale is one of[…]
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Exmoor ponies gathered from the moor
A wild ride on Exmoor: A Guardian Country Diary piece on gathering the Tippbarlake Herd of Exmoor ponies. You can[…]
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‘The wild is in us and we are in the wild’
I’m giving a talk at The Other Side near Sherborne on Saturday 11 November. It’s about unearthing buried stories in[…]
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The Empty Countryside
‘Our yearning for rewilding can run the risk of placing humans somehow outside of nature, maybe even counter to it.[…]
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Summer’s sweetness distilled
The honey harvest at Ryall, Dorset. The bees think it’s autumn. Since mid-July they have been reducing their numbers and[…]
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Orchids thrive on the other side of the Chasm
A walk to Goat Island on the Lyme Regis to Axmouth Undercliff. (Originally written for the Guardian’s Country Diary.) A[…]
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The blackbird hour
It’s the blackbird hour – that time on March afternoons around 3pm when all the blackbirds sing. (This was a[…]
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Two Dorset walks: Eggardon Hill and East Chaldon to Durdle Door
Two Dorset walks commissioned by the Guardian for a spring walk special feature. You can see them on the Guardian’s[…]
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The Hornet Oak
The tale of the Hornet Oak in the coppice near where I live. This piece was originally written for the[…]
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