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It had to happen. At some point I would have to come back to walking, purely for its own sake. ...

What do you do when the thing that is taking up most of your head-space is not your story to...

As I’ve said, I’ve been walking Guernsey for a fair few years now. I have a map. I have an...

“Where is Em?” QR asked on the group chat. She’d given me a different name to begin with,...

Take two days, to feel the distance, and learn to relax through delays and the dashing to...

Whenever the season changes, there are old songs that play in my head as I walk through the...

Here's a thought: if you don't believe in miracles, consider the humble bumble. Look at the...

During the week we were being encouraged once again to see ‘the walk’ – any walk – as ‘a journey’...

I danced with an old man last night. I have no idea who he is, and I’m not using ‘old’ either...

“Will there be rain?” I asked mid-week, under cloudy skies. “Hopefully,” people said. ...

I promise that this is my final ‘oh wow, I loved it’ back-trip through my Douro jaunt. I know...

They say the devil is in the detail…but the truth is that so are the angels, the golden threads,...

“What was your favourite bit,” people ask – the official (dreaded) feedback questionnaire and...

There was a time when I’d come back from a trip with a sheaf of notes and all I had to do was...

I’ve been journalling for a long time, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, and...

It had been a week of sad news. A friend described loss as a familiar companion. Sometimes it...

I came to J. A. Baker – as with many of the people I’m referencing right now – through Patrick...

I have never done this before. I have never before stood out a storm. Oh, I’ve watched them...

Reading Kathleen Jamie’s piece about the corncrake1, I realise again how few birds I recognise...

Nesting. Breeding. Empty nest syndrome. Whenever we use the bird analogy for our desires for...