Entries tagged "outdoors"

The Procrastination of an Outdoors Writer

2013-01-16

Today marks the start of the writing of a new book. And what better way to celebrate it, than by procrastinating! As writers go, I try hard to keep myself towards the more disciplined end of the scale. I lock myself in my shepherd's hut with a hot drink and then emerge, blinking and mole-like about two hours later for another brew before the cycle repeats itself. The problem is that I write about the outdoors and nature and there is a window in the shepherd's hut. What peculiar conspiracy is it that…

National Trust Outdoors Book of the Year

2011-04-29

The National Trust is asking people to vote for their favourite outdoors book, published in hardback or paperback in the UK, since January 2010. It only takes 5 seconds to vote: This could be lichened to an X-Factor for outdoors books and I thought it would be nice to sea if I could get the word out there. Of course it would be tree-mendous and I'd be over the moon, it really would be a very sunny day to see The Natural Navigator star in such a way, but I must be on another planet to…