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 […]

I’ve just picked up a copy of Country Walking magazine, and they’ve done a great job with my article on the ‘Love of the Sea’. Here’s the text, including my top ten coastal walks all around the UK. For the love of the sea With wet shoes, salty hair, and […]

This is the Year of Legends, as decided by the tourist board, Visit Wales. Since last summer I’ve been organising a series of theatrical events for the Dyfi Biosphere – the remarkable but little-recognised local UNESCO-designated area. To promote the events and the Dyfi Biosphere itself, Rhys and I (and his production company Fforest Films) pitched […]

Adventurer and all-round inspirer, Alastair Humphreys, recently interviewed me. He’s written it up here, and done a very nice job: http://www.alastairhumphreys.com/seaside-donkey/

I was very excited to be invited to the Dundee Literary festival in October, to talk about the Seaside Donkey adventure, crowd funding campaign and book writing marathon. It was my first time hobnobbing with authors and the rest of the literati, going out in downtown Dundee with famous critics, […]