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Prints in the pinewoods
This week involved a trip so brief, bizarre and beautiful it seemed almost dreamlike. I was asked to write a feature for Crufts Magazine that required I spent 24 hours in deepest, darkest Scotland in...
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The benefits of being in nature; are children losing out?
Rob spoke to Hannah Murray at Talk Radio Europe: Spain a couple of days ago. Listen here Nowadays, less than a quarter of children visit a local patch of green weekly. What sort of damage could this do...
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What do you get out of slowing down and spending time in nature?
Yesterday, I had a very pleasant chat with Sean Moncrieff on NewsTalk Ireland. Listen here We talked in particular about the transformative effect that spending quality time in nature can have. As you...
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The ones that got away
Rob and I both like to draw simply for our own enjoyment, and while we were writing and travelling for Skimming Stones and other ways of being in the wild, we did so pretty much continually. Given the...
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Rob and Leo on The Culture Show!
Here is our seven-minute appearance on The Culture Show in all its glory, hope you like it! We talk about Skimming Stones, and why it is that we need to reconnect with nature. If you want more, do...
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Listen for the real twitterati
Our latest column in The Independent is out and this month it’s all about the splendour of birdsong, plus a few suggestions for places where you can catch the dawn chorus line in full voice. Hop on...
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A ‘brilliant book’: The Huffington Post joins the call of the wild
We often receive requests to try to boil down the activities in our book into bite-sized bits of information. The difficulty is that this is somewhat at odds with the ethos of ‘Skimming Stones‘, which...
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Give your kids a present to remember this Easter: nature
Asked to picture our favourite childhood memory, many of us will remember something outdoors, but we may well be the last generation to do so. Ask the same of today’s children and they are likely to...
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Go fish
When as the salmon seeks a fresher stream to find (Which hither from the sea comes yearly by his kind, As he in season grows), and stems the wat’ry tract Where Tivy, falling down, doth make a cataract,...
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Leo’s feature in Western Mail
Leo wrote a lovely feature recently for Wales’ fantastic Western Mail all about fishing on the Teifi using homemade rods that we fashioned from hazel saplings. (Chapter 10 in the book as you ask…). If...
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