Read my blog post for Guardian Gardening about how a slower, quieter approach to doing the garden is working for me.

You spend forever working on a book, especially a walking guide. There’s so much to get right. The text and maps have to be spot

I’ve recently put the finishing touches to a new walking guide to my home county, Pembrokeshire. It will be published next year as my second

It was good to get so much insighful reader feedback on my post. http://halifaxartfestival.com/xanax. It makes the writing process feel much more like a conversation,

When you write a book there is only so much that you can get in. There are word counts and deadlines to be respected, so

“You’re putting words into my mouth…” Yes, but in a good way. Over the years I’ve done a little bit of ghostwriting here and there,

It’s great to get some recogition from people in the know. So, thanks to the judges of the 2015 Outdoor Writers & Photographers Guild Awards

I spent a fascinating day recently up on the roof with master craftsman Alan Jones learning just a little about the Welsh thatching tradition. Yes,

One of the best things about editing ‘Quality Wales’ for Visit Wales is the fascinating, inspiring people we get to talk to when we’re putting

It’s a real buzz to finally open the box of copies of ‘Wilder Wales’, which turned up on my doorstep today. The talented team at

It’s great now to have Wilder Wales as a book, rather than just a pdf. We have a publication date too, of March 2015. That

It was always going to be a big project, but my book Wilder Wales has been a bit of a marathon effort. The proposal went