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My Best True Stories About Badgers And Hedgehogs
A few years ago I used to feed peanuts and dry cat food to the young badger in the above photograph, which lived in the field opposite my house alongside several of its pals. Around that time I remember a growing feeling that, everywhere I went, people were waiting to
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The Lion, The Witch And The Dress Code
Life In The Magic House
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HURRAY! I Now Own My Books Again!
Why I took the rights back to my most recent seven books, and how you can get hold of them, without giving money to my (now ex) publishers
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Where I Am, Where I've Been And Where I Am Going (Plus Some Other Destinations)
I did wonder about making this a paid-only post, perhaps because it’s quite a personal one, but in the end I decided I wanted everyone to be able to read it. If you decide to upgrade to paid, though, you can read my full paywalled archive of well over
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RR Hood (Reprise)
A fairy tale for 21st Century adults
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Protected By The Ejaculation Of Serpents
35 years - or is it 36 - of watching The Wicker Man
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Cat Horoscopes
Aries This week you will see a ghost but nobody will notice when you look startled about it since you look like that a lot of the time already anyway. Later, a serendipitous series of events - mostly vole-related - will take you on a long journey (24 yards) but
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Old Litkinov
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The Real Stories Behind The Lives Of Some Scarecrows I Have Photographed On Walks
JOHN I first met John on a brutally crowded train from Birmingham to Devon. It turned out our reserved seats had been commandeered by two members of the same shrill family from Tamworth and that got us to talking. He could not have looked more out of place, standing there
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A Deconstruction Of Ladybird's 'Well-Loved Tales', 1964-74
This one is too long to fit on an email (due to the illustrations) so you’ll need to click through to the webpage to read the entire thing… Subscribe now One of the many ways that the internet is cruel and annoying in a “pissing down your back then
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The Punishment Of Water
This is a piece I wrote in late August, 2020, which the majority of you won’t have seen. It popped into my mind because, after the huge amount of rainfall here in Devon over the last few days, I was thinking about the astonishing weight of water and how