Beat The Burnout
With one Bank Holiday until Christmas, Simon Whaley asks if we should take a break from our writing business. As writers, we can work from anywhere. Whether that be a …
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Magnificent Much Wenlock
This week’s issue of The People’s Friend has my travel piece about the Shropshire market town of Much Wenlock. Sandwiched between the River Severn and Wenlock Edge, this quintessentially English …
Top Seven Seaside Railways
Check out my top seven seaside railways journeys in the August 2022 issue of BBC Countryfile magazine. (They’re all more ‘unusual’ railway journeys, including cliff railways, funicular railways, tramways and …
Facebook Live with The People’s Friend
I had a great chat with Alex at The People’s Friend this morning during a Facebook Live event, chatting about my writing for the magazine, as well as some of …
Medium Money
Can writing for online platforms generate a useful income? Simon Whaley reviews his first year on Medium In August 2012, Evan Williams, who founded Blogger and co-founded Twitter, launched a new online writing …
A Path to Ponder
Charles Darwin had one. Charles Dickens had one. And now I have one. I’ve always believed in the Latin phrase Solvitur Ambulando: it is solved by walking. I enjoy long walks …
Rain-dodging Snapper
Well, June has been rather soggy here in the Welsh Borders – more like April with some sudden, sharp, flood-creating downpours at times. Somehow, though, I dodged them all on …
St Catherine’s Fort
The July 2022 issue of BBC Countryfile has my piece about St Catherine’s Island, which is just off the beach at Tenby, Wales. It’s currently run by some amazing volunteers, …
Make It Snappy!
Last December, I was fortunate enough to do a talk at the Warner Leisure Hotels at Cricket St Thomas, for the wonderful readers of The People’s Friend. Afterwards, I was …