The Lost Valley
A very short account of a place where I used to try to live
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A Very Pagan Walk And The Unavoidable Interface Between Walking And Writing
My Dad And The Toad In His Shoe
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Some Photos From My Family's Archive And The Cult Low Budget Horror Films They Became
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Important: Please read!
You might have noticed that, while I am still posting new pieces of writing on this site, I'm posting them first, and more frequently, on my Substack page. My plan is to continue this and make it the main portal for my new writing, because it's
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Memories Of My Time Living In Edwardian Britain
It never gets any less amazing, the speed at which time flashes by, as you get older, and perhaps this is the main reason that I find it almost impossible to believe that it is now over 113 years since I was living in Edwardian Britain. I remember the day
The Making Of A Cult Classic
RJ McKendree's amazing 'Wallflower' album, and how it became no longer fictional...
Ghost
A brief record of a confusing and eerie thing that happened to me on a moor, from a couple of years ago
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Memories Of My Time Living In Edwardian Britain
(Reposted, free for everyone to read, because I prefer it that way.)
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Things About The Countryside That Make Me Angry, And Some Photographs I Have Taken Of Them
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Diary Notes, November, 2022: The Pleasure Garden
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Why I Am There And Not *There*
Today I feel more tired of social media than ever before and more thankful for Substack than ever before. Yesterday I deleted my Twitter account, having been briefly drawn back there for the usual reason: the desire to give books I’ve put every ounce of myself into the best