Rutland Country Life

Inspired by the trees. Drawing on my journey to listen and learn from 10 trees around the world, and ongoing interactions with trees, nature and books and art about trees and the natural world

Award-winning author and illustrator writing about creating more and consuming less.

New writing on landscape, music, books, folklore, psychedelia, the natural world and other misty magical things outside the mainstream.

Meditations on wild places, human nature, creativity and slow living.

Observations from my village and the inner/outer world beyond. Personal essays, and fragments from my walks, my writing desk, and my book-in-progress. A gathering place for light and the things that hold us together.

An ongoing anthology of historical artist and writer biographies and curated gallery and library collections.

Despatches from a former BBC foreign correspondent now running an off-grid eco-luxe lodge on the Alentejo coast