My first visit to the Pamir mountains in Tajikistan was in 1995. My friend Peter Burgess had taken a job…
Straight lines at sunset
One of the things I love about the sunset at St Ouen’s Bay is the horizontality of it: all those…
Why Jersey should stabilise its population
(This is a longer version of a piece I wrote for the JEP, 14/11/20) It is often said that the…
Jersey’s forgotten quarries
Recently I was exploring down at Fiquet (near Beauport) with my father when we came across unmistakable evidence that huge…
Jersey granite
Since we returned to live in Jersey I have become obsessed with the use of granite in various walls, houses,…
Petit Plémont
Full moon on Friday night, and after some equivocation I decided to spend the night at the Petit Plémont headland.…
Early summer: landscapes of salt and dust
After one of the wettest winters on record, we shifted abruptly into one of the driest spring and early summers…
How my career in television began
I wrote this piece in 2018, as I prepared to leave the BBC. I’d spent 29 years working there, but…
Night out at Beauport
On Wednesday I decided to spend the night out. It was full moon, and I’d been thinking for some time…
The Key to Afghanistan
This piece was written in 1999, after I’d made multiple trekking trips to the Pamir mountains in Tajikistan with my…
