My Dad, And The Toad That Lived In His Shoe

My latest 21st Century Yokel column for The Guardian.

"Taffy Peacock? I See Him Yisdee"

My latest 21st Century Yokel column for The Guardian.

Nunkie, MR James And The Spooky Side Of East Anglia

My latest 21st Century Yokel column for The Guardian.

The Tenth Of December

My review of the new George Saunders book for the Daily Telegraph.

Some Surprising Stuff About Hedgehogs

My latest 21st Century Yokel column for The Guardian

Folk Christmas

Been watching some of the BFI's excellent Here's A Health To The Barley Mow DVD today, which collects footage of various village folk customs from the early part of the 20th Century. It would be an understatement to say that the "Santa" in the 1919 Titchborne Village Christmas Mummers' Play came as a bit of a surprise.

The Cat With Seventeen Lives

A Guardian column about my senior citizen survivor cat, The Bear.