Fifteen years ago, two weeks before Christmas, my mother died. She had suffered from seizures for most of our lives, after the surgeons...

It happens so gradually you hardly notice it. A vague light blue at the edges of the sky that might be the reflected lights of the next...

One of my favourite episodes in our Flight Free UK podcast series is an interview I did with Iain Green, a wildlife photographer based in...

Somewhere in the stretch of the Pacific between California and the scattered islands of Hawaii, the North Pacific Gyre swirls. In its...

‘The Lake District would be so nice if it weren’t for the bloody hills,’ says my companion as we struggle across Cold Fell. ‘The Lake...

There are many things we haven’t done since lockdown started. It was with surprise that I realised one of the things I haven’t done is...