A car-free Lake District adventure to visit the new observatory in Grizedale Forest www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Heading into end-of-year mode and totting up the year's mileage. In 2025 I got 152 articles published, 1768 miles walked and 17 wild swims swum... Hoping for more of the same in 2026! Wishing everyone happy winter festivities. x x x x

January 2026 issue of Country Walking (out now) with four walks I did in the last year: snowdrops near Chippenham Fen (Cambs), rhododendrons in Sheringham Park, wooded Wimbledon Common and a beautiful heather-ringed loch in Aberdeenshire. Reminds me to start planning for the year ahead…

Amazing walk along the Sallagh Braes near Larne (Antrim)

About to get the night ferry to Belfast - here's a moonlit view across the Mersey...

Light show in Southwark cathedral

first visit to Rutland Water...

autumn leaves are lovely this year...

Beautiful day on the Dales Way in Cumbria...

My latest theatre review - a spooky Halloween tale in the fabulous Mill at Sonning www.thereviewshub.com/the-shadow-i...

after days of alternating showers and sunshine, a huge rainbow at the end of our road...

finally made it to Longthorpe Tower in Peterborough with its 14th-century wall paintings...

Exmouth in the sunshine...

www.cathedral.net/event-detail... Anyone in Edinburgh should take a look at this artwork in St Mary's episcopal cathedral....

My arty walk through Edinburgh in today's Guardian ... www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Dublin by night...

Wildflowers in Edinburgh Botanic garden before Storm Floris arrived...

New Fisherman mural in Newquay

This book I contributed to is due out in October press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Folkestone Triennial - highly recommended and very easy to reach car-free! www.goodjourney.org.uk/creative-fol...

walking the coast path - Hastings to Rye...

Finally visited West Stow, which I've been meaning to do for ages...

Been exploring some gardens in Suffolk... www.goodjourney.org.uk/suffolk-gard...

Merry Wives of Windsor at the Globe Theatre... www.thereviewshub.com/25-the-merry...

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exploring statues of women in London, following the Westminster safari in a new book by Juliet Rix... www.safehavenbooks.co.uk/londons-stat...

July’s issue of Country Walking magazine features a #walk around the #Lincolnshire Wolds by @phoebetaplin.bsky.social with a route exploring Tennyson Country around the wonderfully named Bag Enderby. Discover more: bit.ly/4eAeCky

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exploring Jane Austen's Hampshire...

Clumber Park and Sherwood Forest...

waterfalls and wild weather in the Yorkshire Dales...

View of Blenheim across the lake from the public footpath

Amwell nature reserve in Hertfordshire...

contributed to another fun supplement in the Guardian... www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Nick Mohammed's endearing new show is on tour... www.thereviewshub.com/mr-swallow-s...

bench in Bowood walled gardens - open 2025 for the first time

Floret sylva undique, and Flora is queen of lusty May. #wildflowerhour

Fab show at Dalston's Arcola Theatre - on until the end of May www.thereviewshub.com/the-secret-l...

Romeo and Juliet at the Globe - on until August www.thereviewshub.com/25-romeo-and...

Flitwick: wild woods and ancient church...

been in a different town almost every day for a couple of weeks and so too busy to post any of them, but this was Aylesbury...

Wightwick Manor in Wolverhampton - what a surprising and fabulous place!

About to travel on the world's only timetabled passenger hovercraft...

blossom and cowslips in Sawbridgeworth's community orchard. Interesting buildings around the town...

carpets of wood anemones...

Bluebells and wood anemones in Broxbourne Woods

compelling show about Oscar Wilde at the lovely Jermyn Street Theatre www.thereviewshub.com/the-importan...

This year's first wild swim - yesterday in Weymouth...

My brother and I walked ten miles from her old house to the field where our mum is buried to mark one year since she died. On the way, there were banks of primroses and celandines the first wild garlic flowers and even bluebells…

#SundayPixSpring A more traditional Spring photo. I make a point of visiting this tree near us every Spring. It's in someone's garden but overhangs the street and when the blossom starts to go over, moments of pink joy rain down on you.