On The Front Cover!

June 22, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

Recently I was very pleasantly surprised to see an email in my inbox from the editor of Pay Our Planet magazine asking me to write a feature for them. I hadn’t heard of them because it was going to be the very first issue. I leapt at the chance and decided to write about red […]

Winter Walks in Hertfordshire

December 17, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

I am so pleased to announce that I have another article published in Hertfordshire Life magazine. This piece was inspired by wintery walks around the county and focussed on three Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust sites in particular: Lemsford Springs, Amwell and Stocker’s Lake. During my visit to Stocker’s Lake, I was treated to an […]

New Leaves

March 14, 2019.Reading time 8 minutes.

This year I am dedicating a lot of my time to something I have wanted to do for many years: write a novel. I often write fictional scenes and enjoy creating characters and I wanted to set myself the enormous challenge of extending those elements into a book. I’ve read that while many authors swear […]

Inspired by a Blowfish

November 21, 2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

Last weekend I stayed with my grandmother at her lovely house in Frome, Somerset. I love my mini holidays there; my bedroom window overlooks a meandering river, and on the other side is a bustling market and a glimpse of the library through the overhanging trees. I was particularly excited on Saturday morning to discover […]

Eleanor Oliphant Is What We Need

May 6, 2018.Reading time 5 minutes.

In 2017, 40-year-old author Gail Honeyman entered a story about a lonely and damaged young girl into a writing competition. Now winner of the Costa First Novel Award and scheduled to become Reese Witherspoon’s next film project, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine has become a triumph for modern literature. Our heroine, Eleanor, is evidently not […]

I Need Your Help!

November 8, 2017.Reading time less than 1 minute.

If you’re from the UK and have stories to tell about forests, I’d love to hear from you! I’m writing an article about what forests mean to different people, and would love to include some personal stories about wildlife, family memories or anything in between. If you could take a few minutes to complete my […]

Photography in Cumbria

August 18, 2017.Reading time 4 minutes.

During my internship at Student and Graduate Publishing, I was asked to write a piece for Study International magazine. I thought it would make a nice story to reflect on my favourite photography spots in Cumbria, to show international students studying in the North West just how beautiful it is. Studying at the University of […]

The Whale and the Freezer

August 11, 2017.Reading time 4 minutes.

Here’s another article I wrote during my time interning at Student and Graduate Publishing. My colleagues were so interested in the whale project at Tullie House that they asked me to write a piece on my volunteering experience. I’ve just finished my second year studying Wildlife Media. It’s really quite a niche course and when […]

Things to Do in the Lakes

August 4, 2017.Reading time 4 minutes.

For the past two weeks I’ve been on an internship at Student and Graduate Publishing. I’ve been writing non-stop for their three online magazines. This article on the Lake District was written for Study International. In July 2017, the Lake District officially became a UNESCO World Heritage Site, making it part of a group of […]

Magazine Module: Finished!

April 22, 2016.Reading time 1 minute.

Producing an eight page magazine for one of my university modules was a number of different adjectives: exciting, fun, stressful, time-consuming, sometimes maddening. After weeks of editing and tweaking, it’s finished and I submitted the final piece yesterday. The brief was fairly open – all we needed to do was write three articles about wildlife […]