That was a spooky walk! I very rarely feel uncomfortable on a walk but being surrounded by fog makes everything feel… other. A bit like walking in the dark, you just don’t know what’s out there. youtube.com/shorts/Qa0S_...

When can I move in?

Scenes of bitter rivalry from the traditional English sport of electing a new vicar

I made this little linocut as a tribute to the many wonderful handmade signs I’ve come across on my Friday Walk

I had great light for this week’s Friday Walk ✨ youtube.com/shorts/lsMOT...

How much cider is too much cider? Let’s go for a Friday Walk! 🍏 youtube.com/shorts/hjo8C...

The beast has been seen!

What do you call this plant? A while ago I asked on here and on instagram what different names people have for this plant. A lot of people said Bindweed, Convolvulus, or Morning Glory. But I was surprised at how many names I was given that were similar to the one I know: Granny-pop-out-of-bed

A very aspirational display in the window of a local charity shop

Recipe book update: When I first started this book, I foolishly cut out a few pages where I’d made some mistakes. This, predictably, destabilised the binding for some of the other pages…

If you’ve always wanted to get into Iron Age hillforts, the first half of this video by @forestcollectiv.bsky.social is a really great, accessible introduction to what they are, and the varying forms the take: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qldg...

I made this drawing of the cosy little fields from up on Glastonbury Tor on my Friday Walk recently

Monday: drying herbs and homemade curtains

If you’ve always wanted to get into Iron Age hillforts, the first half of this video by @forestcollectiv.bsky.social is a really great, accessible introduction to what they are, and the varying forms the take: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qldg...

I love the beautiful mottled reds in these mosaïcs from Rockboune Roman Villa in Wiltshire. They make me think of fallen leaves in the golden autumn sunlight. 🍂🍁✨ #MosaicMonday

I finally bought myself an old walking stick! youtube.com/shorts/51TvO...

Tesco had no rosemary yesterday. On my way home I saw a huge rosemary bush in a garden, so I asked if I might have a single sprig. The owner me gave me more rosemary than I’ll get through in a year, and lots of sage! He told me to help myself any time. Should we all have communal herb gardens?

❗️ Perfect pub alert ❗️

This is a really interesting thread about the use of blue pigment by palaeolithic people

I love this era of comedy West Country merch

Right. What names do you know for this plant? I’ll start: I call it Granny-pop-out-of-bed (which my Granny taught me)

A nice afternoon sitting and drawing the fields below: youtube.com/shorts/cosvY...

A bad day for a pale person to take a slow walk in a long coat around the graveyard

It’s so easy to forget the past was not all sepia-tones and plain stone

A desk snapshot. I enjoy these little accidental arrangements I catch happening

I love this Roman-era copper alloy figure found at Maiden Castle hillfort in Dorset. It’s very exciting to me as a non-academic to see some of the visual culture of Britain almost two thousand years ago.

This looks remarkably like me of an evening

Horrendous 👁️

You won’t enjoy this week’s Friday Walk if you have a dislike of the following: • pretty villages • friendly cats • great cider farms youtube.com/shorts/mMQHj...

I wonder if they’ll put this on the Welcome sign

The equinox is a slightly overlooked time of the year. I like to think of it as a brief pause, a moment of quiet anticipation before the days days become shorter than the nights. I designed this patch with 12 circles of daylight and 12 circles of darkness to celebrate that brief moment of balance.

Berkshire House bank holiday weekend open garden! Here’s a poster I made for an imaginary event as a tribute for that mildest of English weekend activities 🌱

I’m always fascinated by the dead animals I pass on my walk. Not in a morbid or grotesque way, but it’s so rare you get a chance to be so close to a wild animal and really have a good look. Poor frog. youtube.com/shorts/TnF_D...

I’ve read entire novels that aren’t as intriguing as these two sentences from the back of a postcard

I’m always fascinated by the dead animals I pass on my walk. Not in a morbid or grotesque way, but it’s so rare you get a chance to be so close to a wild animal and really have a good look. Poor frog. youtube.com/shorts/TnF_D...

Berkshire House bank holiday weekend open garden! Here’s a poster I made for an imaginary event as a tribute for that mildest of English weekend activities 🌱

They had to change the shape of the sign in the end.

I found this amazing outline of a hand scratched into an old bridge in the middle of nowhere (Somerset) on my Friday Walk: youtube.com/shorts/atWz0...

The moon has been really nice and big and yellow lately. Here’s a song you might wish to sing to it (if you can squeeze the syllables into a tune) 🌝

I’m finally listening to Weird in the Wade and I’m really enjoying it. It’s a nice investigation into strange goings-on in very ordinary settings, like this episode about a haunted Poundstretcher. @weirdinthewade.bsky.social

In this week’s walk I wore shorts. I won’t be doing that again! youtube.com/shorts/iCyX3...

In this week’s walk I wore shorts. I won’t be doing that again! youtube.com/shorts/iCyX3...

I took this photo after recording the episode. I’d drawn lots of horseshoes that were on display in @themerl.bsky.social and then I went to the pub for a pint and to colour them in. Pretty good day all round.

I was recently invited to the @themerl.bsky.social to chat on their excellent podcast, Absolute Units. If you’d like to hear me warbling on about my work and its connection to rural England then search for Absolute Units wherever you normally listen to podcasts.

I’ve never enjoyed a mosaïc of a snaïke this much

An ancient stone, a great village name, a strange bellchamber, and so so many flies. Let’s go for a Friday Walk: youtube.com/shorts/oqOZw...

I’ve started keeping a recipe book, and here’s why. I’ve never enjoyed searching websites and cookbooks for inspiration each day, trying to remember what meals I’ve enjoyed making before, what particular version of the recipe worked well, and what changes I’ve made to them…

A charity shop bargain with a story: over the last few years, Inch’s cider seems to have found its way into a lot of pubs. It’s made by the huge conglomerate Bulmers, who are in turn owned by Heineken, one of the largest multinational brewing companies. But it wasn’t always this way…

I’m very much into the idea of replacing just part of the roof and using different tiles. Do any roofers offer this service today?

It’s been a while but I’ve started carrying a sketchbook again recently. I fell out of love with the book format years ago and started drawing on loose leaves, but that just isn’t as practical for drawing out and about. Anyway, let’s go for a Friday Walk: youtube.com/shorts/WodrE...