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Fisherfield

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07 Jul 2021

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Last week I escaped back out into the wide world with a trip to Fisherfield Forest in north-west Scotland. Not actually a forest at all, it’s a wide open area of mountainous back-country that takes...

The Power of the Dog

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12 Jun 2021

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Uncategorized, Walking

Back in April, my little mate Charlie dog trotted off into the great beyond. Considering he was a toy poodle who weighed 4.5 kilos and was shorter than a wellington boot, the lack of him...

Some cartoons of 2020

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29 Jan 2021

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Drawings

In a year where I did very little of interest, I did draw quite a lot of cartoons in 2020. I suppose I find it quite soothing. Apart from the relaxing nature of focusing on...

A compendium of campfire cookstrips

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21 Mar 2020

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Food and booze

Some years ago I used to draw campfire cookstrips for Scouting magazine. Presented in the style of Len Deighton’s famous 1960s illustrations from the Observer and the Action Cookbook, my own cookstrips featured campfire recipes...

Hidden wartime remains and the language of wild beauty

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18 Dec 2019

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The world of work

The latest issue of Ernest Journal hit doormats last week, including quite a few bits and bobs by me. Along with quite a few smaller items, I’ve got a couple of longer articles in there....

A spot of time travel

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18 Oct 2019

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Hats, North Yorkshire

It’s a few years now since I first accidentally stumbled upon the North Yorkshire Moors Railway’s Wartime Weekend. Since then it’s become rather a fixture in the calendar. Thomas and Yumina have come up for...

The Cambrian Way

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24 Aug 2019

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Travel tales, Walking

‘If you make it to Conwy,’ promised a kindly publican with a tattoo of an Uzi submachine gun on her upper arm, ‘come back here and there’ll be a pint for you on the bar.’...

Snowshoeing in Tromsø

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01 Jun 2019

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Travel tales, Walking

The last time I went winter walking in the mountains above Tromsø, I lost both my map and myself in the snow. It was 2009, and I’d left my editorial job in London and swanned...

The inaugural Oak Royd Beer Festival

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29 May 2019

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Food and booze

One of life’s great pleasures is actually doing a thing that you’ve been talking about for years. In the case of last weekend, it was holding a charity beer festival at my brother’s rambling old...

Adventures in hatting

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03 Apr 2019

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Hats

How quickly hobbies get out of hand. I wrote in a previous blog about how a habit of cleaning and maintaining my rather extensive hat collection had led to an experiment in restoring a battered...

Fisherfield

The Power of the Dog

Some cartoons of 2020

A compendium of campfire cookstrips

Hidden wartime remains and the language of wild beauty

A spot of time travel

The Cambrian Way

Snowshoeing in Tromsø

The inaugural Oak Royd Beer Festival

Adventures in hatting

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