Brute Force with Art
'A thing o muckle constancy' - a drystone wall adventure with fathers and sons, a century apart, dyking in the Borders.
Who grew your jumper?
With 33 million sheep, it can’t be that hard to find a 100% British grown and made jumper. Or can it?
The cypress trees of Provence, and, eventually, van Gogh
Come September, my yearning for a Keatsian beaker full of the warm south was growing stronger, and the prospect was getting closer.
Woolgathering
Why did wool go out of fashion? And are Britain's sheep an endangered species?