Latitude 2014
Ah, Latitude again, for what is becoming an annual pilgramage with my lifetime best friends. The performances don’t really matter when you are with the your…
Glastonbury 2014
If 2013 was the year the Stones came to Glastonbury, then 2014 was the year that Dolly Parton charmed the world’s greatest music festival. Here follows…
Five Years in the Welsh Hills
I can’t remember who bought me ‘Deep Country’ for Xmas, but Neil Ansell’s autobiographical account of five years living in a Victorian game-keeper’s cottage in the…
Saying hello to the puffins
For something like the last five Christmases my main present to my partner, Liz, has been a trip to the Farne Islands to see the puffins…
Here on Earth
A decade ago, Tim Flannery’s ‘The Weathermakers‘ was one of a handful of rapidly-read books that inspired me to understand the true enormity of the climate…
Walthamstow
Somehow, in eighteen months of blogging about my favourite things I have managed to omit Walthamstow. In my defence, there didn’t seem to be much of…
Copenhagen – of course it’s wonderful
A week spent working in Copenhagen means it is time to update the markontour guide to the city, last edited way back in 2014! Copenhagen is…
What The Light Was Like
Richard Sharland's new exhibition, 'What The Light Was Like', drew us to Manchester this weekend and made for a fantastic Friday night in the north west.…
Contemporary Nottingham
An Easter weekend glide through Nottingham on our narrowboat to catch up with close friends who recently moved back here, has reminded me how much I like the city where I went to university and where my football team continues to inflict pain on its loyal fans.
The Old Ways
I finished reading 'The Old Ways', Robert Macfarlane's joyous account of journeys on foot, on a plane to South Africa in January. But such is the…
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