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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.[…]

The honey harvest at Ryall, Dorset. The bees think it’s autumn. Since mid-July they have been reducing their numbers and[…]

A walk to Goat Island on the Lyme Regis to Axmouth Undercliff. (Originally written for the Guardian’s Country Diary.) A[…]

It’s the blackbird hour – that time on March afternoons around 3pm when all the blackbirds sing. (This was a[…]

Two Dorset walks commissioned by the Guardian for a spring walk special feature. You can see them on the Guardian’s[…]

The tale of the Hornet Oak in the coppice near where I live. This piece was originally written for the[…]

Hunting for fossils in winter on Charmouth Beach. A piece for the Guardian’s Country Diary column. (You can read the[…]

All the twists and turns of laying a hedge at Little Giant Wood. A piece for the Guardian’s Country Diary[…]

‘Old Bottom’ has filled up with autumn rain and it’s time to head for Hardown Hill. A piece for the[…]

This is a piece I wrote for Everett Potter’s Travel Report, a US travel website. It’s about a walking holiday[…]