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I’m very excited to have been funded by the Arts Council of Wales to write a book exploring the pretty bitterly polarised debate on farming vs rewilding that is going on in Mid-Wales. The book, almost finished, adds nuance to the issue, presenting it through the lens of addled motherhood. […]

Here’s an article of mine that just came off sale in the Sept issue of Country Walking. My utterly inspiring friend Ursula Martin arrived back from her trans-Europe walk in June, and I walked the five days with her, into Wales and across the finish line. My five days vs […]

Chico and I were on Wonders of the Coast Path on ITV in June and July, first shown in Wales and then deemed popular enough to go out UK-wide. Here’s our feature below. Sean Fletcher and the team were fun to work with, although as you might glean from the film I felt […]

Great to have been asked to contribute a chapter on the theme of the Kindness of Strangers to this book by publishers Summersdale, alongside the great and good of the adventuring world. It was very well received and an enjoyable opportunity to get a bit experimental with my writing, bringing […]

I’ve been really pleased to be writing for the New Welsh Reader over the past few years, on the themes of motherhood and child-wrangling, engagement with the outside world, and wild swimming. It’s been a valuable platform upon which to keep thinking and writing, and they invited me to talk […]

I was asked to run the social media on the day for the Ynyslas chapter of Danny Boyle’s Pages of the Sea project, marking 100 years since Armistice and the end of the first world war. Across the UK and Ireland communities gathered on 32 beaches to say a collective […]

This is a whole new website, by mistake! The last one was built on Posterous, a blogging platform that has been bought and now canned by Twitter. Damn, fickle old social media… So, this one will get better, but in the meantime check out the other site, where the 2013/14 […]

The second piece from the Sport magazine outdoor section was a top five of running, starting with something attainable and moving on to a 145-mile non-stop run along the canal from Birmingham to London, and a 3100-mile run over 50+ days, around an…

Those good people at Sport magazine asked me to do a summer outdoor adventure section for one of their April issues. The first piece is a round-up of interesting places to stay, and a thematically linked interesting thing to do nearby, like stayin…

I can heartily recommend the Raindance film course I went on last Saturday. It was mostly about feature films – screenwriting, producing, directing and breaking into the industry – but the directing and producing parts will definitely inform the f…