I recently took a brief trip to the Dordogne in the stunning French countryside to visit an old friend and former willow basket tutor, Adrian Charlton, and recharge my batteries. What I hadn’t envisaged was the sense of reconnection that it brought into my life as I recoupled with old friendships, nature and traditional skills. […]

How often do you view your landscape from an elevated perspective? My village is filled with charming cottages, each with its own unique character, which I observe from eye level as I walk past them on the way to work. But what if I look at them from a different angle, over the rooftops, as […]