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Country diary: Gales tear sand from the foreshore

Aberdyfi, Gwynedd: Light streams across the beach, saturating the scene with colour and contrast, driving the grey murk inland

The Guardian - UK · Jan 1, 2024

Country diary: The unsettling sound of chainsaws and woodchippers

Comins Coch, Ceredigion: A new combined cycling and walking route is the talk of the village, but there is concern for the local wildlife

The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2023

Country diary: A small train with a very big view

Afon Mawddach, Gwynedd: This route is vital to day-to-day life here, and affords spectacular views of land and sea. It is now finally upgraded and secure

The Guardian - UK · May 1, 2023

Country diary: The rooks and jackdaws are mob-handed and hungry for apples

Comins Coch, Ceredigion: They are gathering in the village in increasing numbers, sitting in trees and carving the tops out of the fruit

The Guardian - UK · Nov 7, 2022

Country diary: The first beech leaves land without a sound

Comins Coch, Ceredigion: With the dew soaking my feet too, autumn is taking hold now, wherever you look

The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2022

Country diary: Shrunken blackberries and a solitary swallow

Llanfarian, Ceredigion: On an increasingly warm and cloudless day, I take a riverside walk where I’m grateful for the shade

The Guardian - UK · Sep 5, 2022

Country diary: Dragonflies and trout thrive in the quiet of the river

Aberaeron, Ceredigion: I come to an old stone wall over the Afon Aeron; there’s enough life here to make me pause for too long

The Guardian - UK · Aug 1, 2022

Country diary: A hillside walk curtailed – for now

Nant yr Arian, Ceredigion: Red kites, trees newly in leaf, and the early stalks of foxgloves

The Guardian - UK · Jun 6, 2022

Country diary: While I was in hospital, spring sprang

Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: The lambs are stockier, the dandelions have taken to air and, for the moment, my local walks are shorter

The Guardian - UK · Apr 25, 2022

Jewells of love discovered in the wetlands

In the journey through the Jewells wetlands, we meet a man whose love of the land - and love for his wife - has shaped his life and his local environment, and we head onto Redhead - but not before we discover why "butt cream" is so popular on the…

Newcastle Herald · Jan 31, 2022