Writing about post-trauma badassery, unapologetic ageing, gardening as resistance, menopausal resurrection, slow travel & van life joyrides, better late than never publication, and neurospicy chaos.
Nature. Writer. Reader. Rural. Guardian Country Diary, BBC Countryfile, RSPB. Author of On Gallows Down & Ghosts of the Farm. Climate Fic Prize Judge, 2025
I’m a RHS Chelsea gold medallist and author sharing the simplest ways to garden.
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Life, books and reading, nature, knitting, what's happening in the garden, a bit of memoir, general chat. Wide-ranging ruminations. I usually post at the weekend.
After navigating oceans for 24 years in the Navy, I now chart courses through literature and life. Here we explore beyond the bookshelf to discover how the written word shapes who we are and who we're becoming.
Letters from my island home in Shetland: creativity, photography, and slow-ish living with a punk rock heart. Forever obsessed with storytelling and capturing the life's littlest joys in words, photos & art. And dogs. There are also dogs.
