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Rehearsing my favourite ‘Rockley Firs’ for upcoming performance of folk operetta, 'Captain Swing and the Blacksmith' in Oxford , October...

Last month, I walked from Guildford to Gomshall across the North Downs. It was Remembrance Sunday, and before we began we visited a Tesco...

Hallowe’en/Samhain approaches and the presence of the witch in our culture has never been so prevalent. Not because she is casting spells...

When I wrote Captain Swing and the Blacksmith I was focused on the drama of the events of 1830 and did not cast my mind to the next...

'Parvin’s debut novel, though driven by an obsessive love, is no romance; and while a character finds redemption, it is no parable....

Waterloo to Winchester - blur of green hedges, time, azure skies of summer - four hundred years travelled in an hour. I was curious to...

An Experience of Translating Song to Prose. “It must live on, and because of its glorious ricketiness.” Umberto Eco[1] Captain Swing and...

The month of May brought myself and the band to Wiltshire. Our first stop being Avebury which lies on high chalk grassland. I first spent...

More plots from vengeful sweethearts and moonlight shenanigans…this is a first draft from student Georgia Lewis…who has caught the rhythm...