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Social Pitfalls of Village Shopping  A tongue-in-cheek look at growing up in a small community in the 1950s.

Discovering Hoar Oak Cottage  This is an excerpt from an unpublished book about Exmoor.  Hoar Oak Cottage is an isolated and deserted shepherd’s cottage.  There is both a printed version of it and a video of me reading it produced by The Friends of Hoar Oak Cottage

Gwen Raverat   A review commissioned by The Raverat Archive of her extraordinary and beautiful engravings

Why Garden?  An article published in Oxfordshire County Council’s newsletter

How to Have a Stunning Garden When You’re Short on Time guest writing for Gardening Know-How