Pulling power
They have stood in lowly cattlesheds, they have shaped our agricultural history, and today they still help to cultivate half of the world's crops, but what exactly IS an ox?
Float like a butterfly
Finding nature in one of the most artificial artforms, classical ballet, for Country Life magazine.
P is for puddle
What do Sir Walter Raleigh and Peppa Pig have in common? Puddles, the wonderful freshwater habitat
Bright stream
It’s just a slip of a stream, sixteen miles from clean spring to silt-dulled lake-end.
Nature’s fakes and frauds
Mimicry in nature is when a plant or animal gains something by using the signals sought out by another.
Peemail correspondence
What dogs are decoding and other secret messages in the animal world. A feature for 3 November issue of Country Life.
Brute Force with Art
'A thing o muckle constancy' - a drystone wall adventure with fathers and sons, a century apart, dyking in the Borders.
Otterly wonderful
A bright-eyed and bewhiskered otter face is hard not to love.
Between two bridges
Tweed memories in a poem
Why the white tail?
A curious question for Country Life, in which I examine scuts, rumps and rears and wonder why so many animals have such obviously flashy appendages.