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Spring and its discontents

Spring and its discontents April used to be the cruellest month – the world was having a party and I was at home washing my hair. People ...

Newsletter Nov 20 - 3 things . . .

https://mailchi.mp/5eac82f5390f/living-with-trees-newsletter-nov-7109861 Here is a quick reminder of our online launch tomorrow

Georgie goes yarn-bombing . . .

Interview on This is Alfred - Shaftesbury's daily podcast. You may notice colourful fabric draped from the branches of trees on Shaftesbu...

Interview about Living With Trees

Here is a short interview about Living With Trees' on the daily 'This is Alfred' podcast. We talk about the long writing process, what it...

Living With Trees - peek inside...

It's a thing of beauty! Short video showing the book (46 seconds)

Newsletter Nov 2020

https://mailchi.mp/a9b3cb9e79dc/living-with-trees-newsletter-nov-20 Here is my first Newsletter to accompany the launch of "Living With T...

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A common feature of the projects described throughout this book is that they all originate in a particular place, borne of particular nee...

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Imagine these islands with large forests, small woods and a countryside dotted with trees, covering about a third of the land. Some of th...

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The F-Word Can we let forests flourish, but still take a cut? Forestry is often overlooked and misunderstood. Foresters themselves have b...

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We explore how trees have entwined themselves in our culture . . . (photo Hugh Dunford Wood) "As the author Robert Pogue Harrison points...

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We explore the role trees play in our daily lives . . . Trees and woods are rarely private, in the sense that they are usually visible to...

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In chapter 2 we look at Trees in our lives and consider the many contributions of trees. We come across trees in our lives every day and ...

Are we there yet . . . ?

You know on a long journey when your dad says 'Count to 100 and we'll be there' . . . then as you approach 100 with no destination in sig...

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Planting is all the rage these days but it isn’t new. Over the last century, ambitious afforestation (planting on new land) expanded UK f...

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At the beginning of the book, we look at what we have lost and what remains of our woods, including our precious Ancient Semi-natural Woo...

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Here is the opening paragraph of Ch1 . . . "Wild nature is self-willed: it does what it likes. Yet we seek to control it, until it is tam...

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Living With Trees will finally be published on 5th November by @LittleToller! Drawing on the many ways that people around the UK are rede...

The Environment magazine

Tree flowers No.12

Tree flowers No.11

Rooftop Sessions

#BlackLivesMatter

Tree app for London

#NaturalConnectingNow

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