The most humbling garden moment of my life happened during a sweltering July drought three years ago. I was standing…
So there I was, curled up on my sofa on a rainy Bristol evening, binge-watching the latest nature documentary series…
The first time my flat flooded, I was woefully unprepared. It was three years ago, during that freak storm system…
I have a confession to make: I’m a complete hypocrite when it comes to music. For someone who meticulously separates…
I had one of those moments recently – you know, when you suddenly realize you’ve been an absolute environmental hypocrite…
I’ll never forget the look on my housemate Ruth’s face when she walked into our garden and found me crouched…
The day my ancient gas boiler finally died was both a disaster and a blessing in disguise. Water was pooling…
The evening my ancient gas boiler finally wheezed its last breath remains vivid in my memory—not just because it happened…
Last month, I found myself in the slightly surreal position of having a heated argument with my uncle Derek about…
I still remember the exact moment I fell in love with forest gardening. It was seven years ago, during a…
Last summer, I watched three months of careful gardening literally wither away in less than a week. After a spring…
Let me tell you about my most embarrassing moment as an environmental writer. It happened three years ago at a…
Last Tuesday morning, I found myself flat on my stomach in the community garden, nose practically pressed against a cluster…
I had my first full-blown climate panic attack in the frozen food aisle of Tesco. It was summer 2019, right…