I love the sea and its ever changing perspectives. For certain, hardly a day passes that I don’t look out and across the bay to The Needles. All that light, ozone and clear air; no wonder [...]

We should consider rewilding the River Avon. I would never have posed that question a few years ago but recent experience has changed my mind. Ann and I walked the Avon Valley Footpath recently [...]

Professor Brian Cox recently introduced a BBC programme on music. It utilised the profs planetary skills because it was all about Holst’s suite called The Planets. He spoke about each [...]

When I began to write about Zuri in my forthcoming book, I was aware that my own childlessness would have to be faced. She had to have a child or feel wretched in the face of her society. A woman [...]

BBC Springwatch asked us to enter our gardens into Gardenwatch and we did so. It seemed an apt moment because a nest of long tailed tits had erupted into our garden. Yet, disappointment arose [...]

A theme of my forthcoming book is about how much the past, including the prehistoric past, still touches modern life. The joy of getting back in touch with the land and even utilising the beauty [...]

A dubious benefit of a failing prostate is that I get up for a pee at least once in the night. I always look out and at 4.10 am on the 30 June I saw a tiny crescent moon. I took this photo but [...]

Lundy, what a joy it was to visit in May 2019. Isolation, romance, mystery and, sadly, even cruelty, are words that apply to the island. It makes me realise how much Britain has to offer. The [...]

“As a kid I never lacked for anything. No one felt poor because everyone was the same. We lived off broken biscuits. It was great.” That’s not me speaking but John McDonnell, [...]

The chief executive of Affinity Water was interviewed. She opened her mouth and a load of dribble fell out. It rather mimicked her company’s broken pipes spewing our precious water whilst [...]