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Straw Sandals, Foldaway Boats and a Penny-Farthing

Straw Sandals, Foldaway Boats and a Penny-Farthing

Straw sandals, fold-away boats, a penny-farthing bicycle, camels, yaks, ponies, even a cow: just a few of the means by which my ‘passionate travellers’ made their incredible journeys across vast distances. We are a migratory species. For millennia, our ancestors

Trish April 22, 2019September 2, 2020 Featured, Travel Read more

Travel Snacks of the Past

Travel Snacks of the Past

As we tuck a packet of nuts and raisins, a chewy bar or a handful of dried fruit into our pocket before a journey, we follow an ancient tradition of travellers. But they had more need of it than most

Trish April 12, 2019September 2, 2020 Featured, History, Travel Read more

How to Detach Unwanted Leeches

How to Detach Unwanted Leeches

Leeches are a common hazard for passionate travellers. But would anyone actually want leeches? Well yes, the ancient health remedy of applying leeches to the body is still a recognised medical practice, though now targeted more scientifically and called ‘hirudotherapy’.

Trish April 6, 2019March 25, 2022 Featured, Travel Read more

Powerful Women: From Fiction to Fact

Powerful Women: From Fiction to Fact

The world is happy to celebrate powerful women – as long as they are fictional. From the Greeks’ mythical Amazons and the Valkyries of Icelandic sagas, to Wonder Woman striding heroically across our cinema screens, powerful women are the stuff

Trish March 23, 2018August 31, 2018 Featured, History, Stories Read more

Invisible Women in the History of Literature

Invisible Women in the History of Literature

Words matter. Conjured into stories, they are powerful. And after writing systems developed some 5000 years ago and words were engraved into stone as a permanent, definitive ‘truth’, their power became mighty. In cultures worldwide, myths claim fertility as a

Trish May 12, 2017April 29, 2019 About Writing, Featured, publishing Read more
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A personal tale of tree planting that tells the deep-time story of a New Zealand sand country landscape.

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