Fog on Brighton Pier: a dark side of the English seaside
Exploring the fog and dark side of a day at the English seaside.
Why you should feed the birds (and be more healthy and happy)!
Studies prove that nature has a beneficial effect on our happiness. So here’s how £40 spent a year ago continually restored my spirits throughout troubled times.
Urban remains: lost worlds, canals and abandoned pubs
Urban exploration by bike: in Glasgow exploring abandoned pubs and the urban remains of a forgotten world of the Forth & Clyde Canal.
The astonishing story of Greek anarchists and Syrian refugees
How Athens anarchists provided a solution to a refugee and homeless crisis in their city.
Folklore terror on the Scottish seas
Poetry duels, pagan beer rituals and playing with storms – the unique folklore legend of the Blue Men of the Minch, with a sideways look at their urban gangster cousins.
Somerset: Walking with Coleridge and the Person from Porlock
Walk in parts of Devon and Somerset and you walk the footsteps, opium dreams and Romantic poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Enon Chapel: death, horror and dancing in Victorian London
Victorian London was a charnel house of the dead; a city oozing horror and nowhere more so than a small chapel where they danced on the dead.
Down by the river: junkies and justice
It’s a building I’ve never properly noticed before as it squats on the south bank of the Clyde. Now I wonder how I managed to miss it.
