I have never been much of a campaigner. Like most people of my vintage, who work in the countryside I went on a Liberty and Livelihood...

In the hedgerows all is busy. The sap is rising, leaves unfurl, blossom blooms and the farmland birds are in the throes of brooding a...

The beaches are full, ranks of fishing boats lay hauled up on the shingle. Craft don't use the Harbour, it is choked, silted and filled...

We finished laying a hedge last week at one of our county’s finest old stately homes. 220 yards of mixed hawthorn, hazel, field maple and...

The Big Farmland Bird Count has been and gone like the snow that lay in the ditches. At Flea Barn we counted a total of 1,888 birds and...

Country Diary February 2021- My wife Clare, son Charlie and I attended the film premiere of “The Dig” on Friday. Admittedly this...

This article was first published in the Shooting Times in March 2020 In an effort to curry favour with the rebels of extinction last...

My chainsaw requires an elaborate series of pumping, priming and lever twisting. Only then, followed by repeated pulls on its cord, can I...

I was going to concentrate my Country Diary this month on our fantastic Suffolk farmers and producers who not only grow and create some...

This is taken from an article I wrote and originally published in The Suffolk Magazine A slightly faded black and white wedding photo...

At the last election the political parties tried to out do one another with the number of trees they claimed would be planted should they...

Back when the world was young, 1989 to be precise, I was a fresh faced trooper in The Life Guards, serving at Hyde Park barracks....

In the country it initially seems that little has changed. Farming goes on, cultivating, drilling, spraying etc- all are continuing apace...

Yesterday Patrick Barker and I stood in a very wet, windswept meadow. The meadow itself is fascinating. Formerly a grazing meadow from...

On the whole I work in places rich in wildlife. They are abundant in flora and fauna because of the efforts, both physical and financial,...

We live in a time when our countryside is under threat and we yokels are oppressed. Admittedly it is no new phenomenon_ We have endured...

Hedge laying demonstration at Lodge Farm Westhorpe On the 22nd of February I will be hedge laying. This may not be thought of as out of...

I went to London on the train in October. I fear the Capital. It is too dusty, musty, oppressive and brash for one used to the fresh...