Category: Feature Writing
Whisky and waves: the future of Scottish isle’s power?
Communities on the Isle of Islay are moving forward with plans for tidal energy and renewable fuels while maintaining age old methods of…
Read MorePositive learning
Investing in our children’s positive future, in a flexible, nurturing and teacher-endorsed equestrian environment The impact is fantastic! The looks of awe and…
Read MoreCanine Couture
From Tinkerbell’s Simple Life wardrobe to New York’s Pet Fashion Week, canine couture is challenging runway displays from Los Angeles to Paris. Human…
Read MoreLifting the Grey: Horses’ Positive Healing
Animal therapy is recognised as beneficial for people with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). More recently, studies and word-of mouth reports indicate that non-riding time…
Read MoreSail, sun and serendipity
‘We sail,’ Captain Sergey Utitsyn asserts firmly. ‘This is a sailing ship!’ He was responding to my temerity in calling the ten-night Star…
Read MoreSalt habitat saviours
The internationally rare, salt-moulded Cheshire landscape deserves protection, according to Saul Burton, Saltscape Landscape Partnership: ‘Nature’s response to the changing profile of this…
Read MoreDay of the Knotweed
Once desirable, it is now seen as aggressive, virulent and definitely not a plant to be trifled with – Japanese knotweed, that is….
Read MoreGiant Bees, Flowers and Outdoor Spaces
The Landscaper, April 2018 issue – extended caption cover story on RHS Cardiff, its first flower show of the season.
Read MoreDelivering Gold
While it may be a truism to say it’s ‘not all about winning, but as much about taking part’, the Britain’s para-dressage team…
Read MoreThe Joy of (solo) Contact
(Originally published in Solo Traveler Blog, August 2018) The simple approach, like so many others to come, is my first solo lesson of this…
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