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Today's - quite silly - post is free for all subscribers but you’ll need to click through to read the full thing as the fact that it contains lots of photos means it doesn’t all fit as one email. If you are considering becoming a paid
I started this Substack page a little under a year ago. I felt a little nervous, making the transfer, since it was unknown territory for me and I already had a fairly large number of subscribers who’d signed up to read my writing via my website, but since then
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It was the week before I moved house and I was haring around, begging local businesses for old cardboard boxes and dropping off unwanted possessions at charity shops and recycling centres. After donating some books and clothes to the Liskeard branch of British Heart Foundation I realised I was not
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An Early Winter Compendium
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A photo essay, now free for everyone to read, about a walk I’m still thinking about, over six months later… What is more remarkable: our capacity to forget suffering and darkness, or our capacity to remember it? I’m frequently equally struck by both. But I do know that
One of the writers on the internet who tell people what they need to do to be a proper writer recently said you should write about what keeps you awake at night so I thought I should write about the noise of my cat Jim crunching mouse bones a few
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A Brief Journey Through A Tiny Bit Of My Record Collection
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This is a piece I wrote in 2020, which the majority of you probably won’t have previously read. It popped into my mind because I was thinking about the astonishing weight of water and how often we underestimate it, after the frightening recent floods in my mum and dad’
Hello! Today’s post is a free one, which you’ll need to click through to Substack to read in full as it’s too long to fit in the email format. It’s an extract from my most recent book, Villager, although it’s a little different to the
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As I drive, as well as trying to stay aware of potential hazards, I scan around for the names of small businesses and their owners on vans and roadside signs. It’s always an insight into the brain-frying number of jobs that are genuinely out there: jobs you never conceived
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Walking, Writing, Inspiration And The Happiness Trap
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Why Do We Not Let Each Other Like The Music We Like?