Sutton is a beautiful little village in Bedfordshire. Very small. Indeed, it has a population of just 299, or thereabouts. It has a...

Podcast...? I'd never listened to a podcast until this year. Up to now my listening routine featured football commentary on the weekend,...

I'm going much further afield today for a ghost story. You see, I used to live in Australia - for a good ten years when the kids were wee...

Okay. Wow. History... This is why I love being back in the UK. It's like every little corner of the country, every field, hill, and...

DreamSwarm celebrates the art and artists of a strange place. The brainchild and baby of Andy Mark Simpson, it is a place that enjoys the...

Trying to find inspiration for a new piece, a beginning that catches me with character or emotion, and my idle thoughts lead me to...

It's been a long time since I wrote my blog. Longer than a long time, a weekly habit that I need to revive and breathe life back in to. A...

What is Folklore? This is a question I've seen discussed on social media many times. Efforts tend to try to distinguish why it's...

Why Folklore? And why is it important to me? Sounds a simple enough question, only once you start to strip away the obvious you quite...

Over the last few years, whilst struggling with mental health, I've come to realise how important the folklore, history and landscape of...