Hedge Britannia

I’ve just been fixing a few minor glitches in the blog like the broken Twitter button and so on. In the interests of blatant commercialism, I’ve also added a Buy the Book link to the right. It’s to Waterstones rather … Continue reading →

Just linking to a rather interesting blog post I stumbled over this morning… “As I stood there in the garden, watching off road fork-lifts deposit yews taller than my head into a pre-dug trench, while internally debating how minutely kinked … Continue reading →

I’ve got a couple of events booked over the next month or so: On 20th June at 6.30 I’ll be at the Idler Academy in West London. Full details on that one should be up soon on their website if … Continue reading →

This morning’s dose of Hedge Britannia on Radio 4′s Book of the Week is up on the iPlayer for anyone who wants to hear it. It was interesting for me to hear how they had edited it, they stitched a … Continue reading →

Thanks to everyone who helped to organise the Museums at Night chat at Lyme Regis Museum on Friday. I was pleased and relieved to see that plenty of people came along, and found out some interesting things from the various … Continue reading →

I’ll be down in Lyme Regis on Friday, at the Museum to talk a bit about the history of British hedges. It starts at 6.30. Then afterwards, it is the Moth Ball, with Dr Phil Starling, a dusk walk to … Continue reading →

The book is officially released tomorrow. At long last, seems to have taken forever to arrive since it was originally due out last July and we put it back. Tom Fort has reviewed it in May’s Literary Review, more reviews … Continue reading →

Having said that Hedge Britannia was going to be Radio 4 Book of the Week, I immediately became paranoid that someone might have misunderstood and it wasn’t really happening, but happily it is now being trailed on the BBC website … Continue reading →

Apparently Hedge Britannia will be Book of the Week from May 21st-25th. Which is very exciting news.