Features

The People’s Friend from May 2018 –
Rat Revelations, Entranced by Trees, The Delights of Dragonflys, My Chamelion Called Chloe, Fun with Goldfish, Happy to be All at Sea, Hares, Mole Moments, All About Robins, Peacocks, Frogs, Eggs and I, All About Yew, Ladybirds, Happy Dogs, Changing My Chi, Rabbiting On, All About Shrews, Celandines, Nightingales, Camels, Dolphins, Hazel Trees, Letting My Garden Go, In a Tiny Church, My Feelings for Felines, Durlston Days.

Writing Magazine
April 2019 For Love of Polly 2nd prize for Creative Non-fiction.
October 2020 Toby Jugg and the Deadly Demons long-listed for children’s chapter book competition.
October 2021 Milly Grubb’s Hand Goes Missing long-listed for children’s chapter book competition.
March 2024 The White Buck of Bolderwood  500 word creative non-fiction. Highly commended.

Minehead Literary Festival
April  2020  The Greenwood Tree 3rd prize in short story competition; theme The Secret

The Best of British
April 2023 A Glimpse of Life as a Vet

The Countryman
September 2023 Sett Ways

Rulers Wit
April 2024 The Houdini Hamster in anthology.
www.sixtyplusurfers.co.uk
Bi-monthly series Dora’s Diary   2018 –
The Orange Sweater, Getting Overweight, Exercise in the Snow, New Year’s Resolutions, Training Your Human, Seaweed, Communications, Burying Bones, Mowing Lawns, Colourful Characters, Mrs Potter’s Pekes, Lyme Disease, Roderick the Rooster, Easter Eggs, Colour Blindness, Badger’s Holt, Sense of Humour, Tail Wags, Training Your Humans, Depression in Dogs, Heatstroke, Roses, Xmas Whelping, Fireworks, Halloween,  Mice in the House, In the Doldrums, Chasing Squirrels, Dabbling in Art, Having a Happy Holiday.

April 2018
The People’s Friend –Where Swallows Choose to RoostWhat a HootColour blindness in Pets Parrots and Ferrets features

March 2018
The People’s Friend – Coming Out of His Shell

The People’s Friend feature on Jonathan.

January 2018
The People’s Friend – New Year’s Resolutions for my Mutt

December 2017  
The People’s Friend –TV Watching Dogs

October 2017
The People’s Friend – Strictly Spiders

September 2017
The People’s Friend – Tales from Prospect House -start of a 2nd series, weekly for six months

September 2016
The Daily Mail – Does Your Dog Have Square Eyes?

March 2016
The Daily Mail – Home Alone Hounds

December 2015
The Daily Mail – Batty about Bats

May 2015 
The People’s Friend – Tales from Prospect House -start of 1st series, weekly for six months

December 2014
The People’s Friend Christmas Double issue – A Furry Friend at Christmas

November 2014
In the Dog House Dora feature and review of Pets Aplenty
Writing Magazine – Members’ News feature

October 2014
Your Cat – My Kinda Cat
Parrots Magazine – In Awe of Aurora
Life with Pets Magazine – A Christmas Blessed by Bismarck

September 2014
Veterinary Practice – Stop Horsing Around
The People’s Friend – A Bear for Clare 13th Sept issue

August 2014

Bournemouth Echo – My Brockland Badgers Saturday 30th
Exmoor4all – Culbone feature

April 2014

Life with Pets Vet Tales – Battles with Bella

December 2013
The People’s Friend – Without a Clue

October 2013 – current
www.sixtyplusurfers.co.uk  A monthly dog blog called Dora’s Diary

December 2012
www.sixtyplusurfers.co.uk – Bismarck’s Christmas Treat
The People’s Friend – Trimming the Tree
Sussex Life – Stocking up for Christmas

November 2012
www.sixtyplusurfers.co.uk – Jumping Jack Splash 

October 2012
The Sunday Times – Are they having a laugh?

August 2012
www.sixtyplusurfers.co.uk – Keeping a Watch on Hattie  
The Daily Mail – Who’s brainier than a toddler then?  Me!
The Daily Mail – Fed up with mowing the lawn?  

July 2012
www.pet-owners.co.uk – Gertie the Goose
www.sixtyplusurfers.co.uk – A Fete to be Feared

Cat World – Antacs with Antac
Dogs Today – ‘Adopt Me’ sponsor for the month
People’s Friend – Book club offer and short story

June 2012
www.pet-owners.co.uk/Battles – Battles with Buster
www.sixtyplusurfers.co.uk/Keeping – Keeping a Watch on Hattie

Western Gazette – A feature on Arthur-Rex.
The Daily Mail – A feature ‘My Wife Loves a Mangey Mutt More Than Me.’

May 2012
www.pet-owners.co.uk – Never Miss a Trick
www.sixtyplusurfers.co.uk – Cyril the Squirrel

April 2012
www.sixtyplusurfers.co.uk – The Silent Siamese

March 2012
www.pet-owners.co.uk – Claws for Concern

February 2012
www.sixtyplusurfers.co.uk – A Clean Bill
www.pet-owners.co.uk – Caught on the Hop

January 2012
www.pet-owners.co.uk – A Hen Party