It was also slightly odd: it was perched very high, nearly 450 metres, on the summit of a bizarrely exposed ridge. It was isolated in one sense, but at the same time it was the middle house of a terrace of three cottages. When I first moved there both the other two houses were holiday homes, used...
Adam and I sat over our coffee watching the birds on the bird feeders in the garden of the Bed and Breakfast where we had spent the night.1 The dense plantation of conifers at the eastern end of Kielder Forest rose above us behind the house, and looking north, we could see over the river and acro...
FreedomWe value ‘freedom’ very highly in our society. Perhaps for the first time in history we speak of it as an absolute and unalienable right for every human being. Sometimes I think we see it as so obviously a good and necessary quality of life that we do not examine what we mean by it.But it ...