Essays

  • Walking the same path for a year

    Walking the same path for a year

    Twelve visits to one stone path under the trees, and a slow lesson in noticing things that only change when you are not looking.

  • The best lunch is eaten standing up

    The best lunch is eaten standing up

    A warm roll, a spiced potato fritter, a green chilli and a square of paper napkin. In praise of food that asks nothing of…

  • The list of hills

    The list of hills

    A notebook of every hill climbed since childhood, and what a thirty-year list teaches about finishing things.