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Wassailing, Straw Bears And Bottle-Kicking
My latest country column for The Guardian's Life And Style section.
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Walking The Black Shuck Route
A piece for The Financial Times Weekend Magazine.
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A Dog Is For Life - Or Maybe Just An Afternoon
My December country column for The Guardian's Life And Style section. Read more about my adventures with Henry the spaniel in my latest book, Talk To The Tail...
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Children Of The Stones
The folk horror genre of filmmaking could not be called prolific, but the few movies within it – mostly made during the early-to-mid 1970s – contain some of art’s most timelessly terrifying evocations of rural Britain. It’s perhaps surprising, then, that two of folk horror’s most revered creations, 1969’
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East Anglia: The Spookiest Place in Britain?
My latest country column for The Guardian's Life And Style section.
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A Booze Foraging Walk In The West Country
A piece I wrote for this weekend's Financial Times Magazine.
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Foraging In Norfolk
My latest Guardian dispatch from Norfolk: on foraging, courgettes, Richard Mabey, and preparing for the apocalypse.
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Porpoises, a "tug off" war, and the meaning of being local
My latest country column for the Guardian.
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The Day An Alpaca Flobbed On My Beard
My latest country column for The Guardian's Life And Style Section.
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'Wild Swimming' - It's A Bit Like Calling Lawn-Mowing 'Wild Vacuuming'
My latest country column for The Guardian.
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Walking Cornwall's Lizard Peninsula
A piece I wrote for last weekend's Financial Times.
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"I'M GOING TO HAVE A WAZ ON THE COMPOST NOW."
My latest country column - on gardening with my dad - for The Guardian's Life And Style Section.