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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[…]

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[…]

A Guardian Country Diary piece about the hornets nesting in our garden. Going upstairs, I hear a deep, droning buzz,[…]

A feature I wrote in 1995 for the Wessex Journal about Sylvia Townsend Warner’s life and death in Dorset. Visit[…]

Evolution of an artist: A piece about Brian Rice, which appears in the Early Autumn 2016 edition of Manor South[…]