Avenas, in the hills of Haut-Beaujolais, is never livelier than on an autumnal Sunday morning. Convoys of trail bikes thump past, riders ...

On my little trip down through France last week, I packed the small binoculars just in case any accidental ornithology presented itself. ...

 I'm featured artist in the new Bristol Review of Books photography section! Which makes me very happy. Their website allows you to ...

Getting out of the van at the Ouistreham seafront, I saw a bank of smoke roll across the road a few hundred yards away. "Something...

My canal trip last week revealed a disappointing shortfall in artisan bakers on the towpath of the Grand Union Canal. Nearby shops tended ...

Down to the Bristol Old Vic yesterday, for Poetry Can 's monthly 'Can Openers' lunchtime event. The guest poet was Sally Jenk...

Settled in after an epic voyage along the Grand Union Canal. I'll write it up presently; but it had high adventures, like almost conk...