ale
On wassailing and the magic of Devon's hills
My January 2015 column for The Guardian's Life And Style section.
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ace records
My Ace Records Top Ten
The excellent Ace Records recently invited me to to pick my top ten songs on their label. This is what I wrote about them.
cats
My Cat For Your Firewood: A Fair Exchange?
A column for The Guardian
coast
22 Things I Have Learned About Devon
It will soon be a year since I moved to Devon. I am still a novice Devonian, but I am falling more and more in love with the place, and have learned a few things about it during that time. Here are some of the main ones: 1. No sight
countryside
My Weird Animal Rescue Story
I was walking on Dartmoor today and noticed a pony roll over on his back, about forty yards from the path I was on, above Dartmeet, not far from Yar Tor. "Hello!" I said to him, in the fake posh voice I always use when speaking to ponies
book recommendations
A Modern Book And An Old Record
Sara Maitland - Gossip From The Forest (Granta, 2013)I'm not convinced the travel aspect of Maitland's book (in which she visits one of her favourite bits of British forest every month for a year and discusses the symbiotic relationship of humans and woodland) and the
countryside
The Owls Of Totnes
A column for The Guardian
cats
"Has That Cat Got Semen On Its Back?"
A column for The Guardian about my cats George and Roscoe.
countryside
My Lesson In Countryside Detective Work
A column for The Guardian
2015
2015 Horoscopes
ARIES A stranger will run past you on a dark street carrying a cake but you will soon forget him. TAURUSThis is a big year for you, full of revelations, the biggest of which being the realisation that you don’t hate all mushrooms, only a few. GEMINIThe left side
countryside
A Walk On Dartmoor With Black Dogs
A column for The Guardian
fiction