The Simple Things • 1st September 2021

Adventure redefined

'We see adventure as nice-to-have, when actually it's essential to our wellbeing. We need adversity,' says Belinda Kirk, one of four women I talk to about pushing the boundaries of what adventure is and who the outdoors is for.

Dobbies magazine • 2nd April 2019

My spring highlights – Lia Leendertz

The best-selling Almanac author Liz Leendertz talks about the plants and traditions that say 'spring' to her. This feature was for the membership magazine of garden centres company Dobbies.

Legion September 2020 • 13th November 2020

Stop the Service Charge

Former Commonwealth military personnel are facing unaffordable visa fees to stay in the UK once they've completed their active service. This feature tells the story of three families who faced being split up as a result and the Royal British Legion campaign, which has the backing of MPs from all parties, to ensure veterans receive better treatment.

N by Norwegian • 1st May 2018

Björn Steinar Jónsson, salt maker

Each month at N, I sourced and interviewed someone in a destination that Norwegian flies to for a regular feature known as 'The Local'. In May, I spoke with Icelander Björn Steiner Jónsson, who makes salt from seawater using geothermal energy, selling it to the finest restaurants in the world.

FCSI magazine • 26th February 2020

What's cooking in dark kitchens?

Online food delivery has been growing exponentially around the world – but can only exist thanks to chefs working in 'ghost kitchens' in the background. I take a look at a shadowy world in which billions of venture capital are invested.

Legion June 2020 • 1st June 2020

Badge of honour

An interviewee puts a huge amount of trust in you when you tell their story – even more so when you write it in the first person. I can build rapport with people from diverse backgrounds and create a safe space for talking about extreme experiences.

FCSI magazine • 1st November 2019

Eat Your Words

Are you ready to order? Restaurant insiders reveal how they're using menu language to manipulate our food choices – in a good way.

N by Norwegian • 1st August 2018

PIPPI'S MAMMA

Best known for her Pippi Longstocking books, Astrid Lindgren is an icon in her native Sweden. As a groundbreaking new biography is published, I head to her birthplace to find an unexpected legacy.

N by Norwegian • 1st August 2018

The Big Idea: forest bathing

Forest-therapy guide Alex Gesse supports young people in Lisbon overcoming emotional and behavioural challenges through the art of Shinrin-yoku.

UK Business Forums • 25th February 2020

Green fingers: starting a horticulture business

Now is not a bad time to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Producers who can say their food and flowers are sustainably grown, and involve no air miles and few road miles, are finding customers willing to pay a premium.

N by Norwegian • 2nd July 2018

Tomorrow's world

Sourced and wrote N's monthly round-up of prototype inventions, new architectural projects and groundbreaking tech, from growing your own sneakers from fungi, to the first hotel in Space.

UK Business Forums • 15th July 2020

Easy pickings? Making a profit from 'wild' plants

With chefs willing to pay £35 for a kilo of freshly picked nettle tips, it's perhaps tempting to start a foraging business if you know good spots where the kind of wild food that features on fashionable menus grows. Like any business though, it's not quite as straightforward as it looks.

N by Norwegian • 24th October 2018

Long Island's living shores

Seafood restaurants on Long Island are saving tens of thousands of shucked oyster shells to use in a living reef project that's dramatically improving coastal resiliency against hurricane storm surges.

Be Healthy • 25th August 2020

Eight reasons to love camping

This piece for Benenden Health's magazine Be Healthy needed to link the camping experience with some of the brand's health themes including good-quality sleep, exercise and work/life balance.

Legion September 2020 • 13th November 2020

The Malaya Emergency

William J Davies wrote a personal account of his National Service in then-Malaya, now Malaysia. I spoke with him and then stitched together a precis of his account and our conversation to tell the story of what day-to-day guerilla warfare in the jungles of South East Asia was like.

BBC Earth • 12th October 2016

In search of bears

'Flying at low altitude across rough sea ice, you want a good pilot who reacts quickly to the environment, as well as keeping an eye on the bear ahead of the helicopter,' Thea Bechshoft says. 'The sea ice is where the bears hunt, because that's where the seals come to the surface to breathe, so that's where we look for them,' she explains.

Sunday Times Travel Magazine • 1st June 2019

Peak viewing

When Italians are wilting from the heat of the cities, there's only one cure: a few days immersed in the mountain air of the Dolomites. High-altitude eats, drives, drinks and stays.

FCSI magazine • 22nd August 2019

Variations on a theme park menu

Food plus intellectual property equals… eatertainment. Chefs and consultants tell how they're meeting the challenge of using food to 'complete the experience' and fully immerse guests in the worlds they're visiting.

Routes North • 7th May 2020

21 things you should know before visiting Norway

I consulted locals and long-time residents about what they think you should know before visiting one of the world’s most beautiful countries. From whether or not to buy a round to brown cheese and Slow TV, here's the low-down.

WIZZ • 30th April 2019

A taste of things to come

Change is in the air: even in a city as classical as Rome, new restaurants are opening up that offer alternatives to the belt-busting cuisine of old, along with new ways to socialise. But how, and why, are they doing this?