After the walk / The blog / The book / The film
on January 26, 2014 at 12:38 pm ×
Several people have asked me for a voucher they can give their dear donkey/adventure/Wales-loving kith and kin, so I’ve fashioned one out of the notebook doodles of five weeks of running the Kickstarter! You can download it here: Download the donkey voucher here print it out and fill it in. […]
After the walk / The blog
on January 23, 2014 at 1:08 pm ×
New print! New print! For people who can’t choose just three for the £100 print, here’s a choice of my favourite pictures from the walk. The prints are beautifully printed A3, gicleé prints with archive quality inks so they won’t fade in your lifetime. There will be three options to […]
After the walk / The blog / The book / The film
on January 23, 2014 at 12:59 pm ×
Who cares that I haven’t finished actually writing the thing – that hasn’t stopped me commissioning the cover of the book! I discovered this wonderful artist, Lee Wright, when I saw his lino cut prints exhibited in his hometown of Crickhowell, and – joy of joys! – he has accepted […]
After the walk / Philosophising / The blog
on January 21, 2014 at 4:52 pm ×
Living outdoors so quickly puts everything in perspective. It reminds me what is precious and important (people, time, landscapes, muscles, chatting, simplicity, lunch) and what is extraneous and best cut down or cut out (commuting, labour-saving devices, clutter, morbid news stories, jetfuel, landfill, women’s magazines) . It strikes me as […]
After the walk / The blog / The book / The film
on January 16, 2014 at 3:10 pm ×
On Tuesday we hit the halfway mark of this great big Kickstarter hullabaloo – a gigantic, knee-wobbling, heart-swelling £14,000, worthy of all sorts of metaphors. Like hitting the halfway mark on the walk, I feel jubilant, a bit overwhelmed, and far from being out-of-the-woods! But the figure kept steaming onward, […]
After the walk / The blog / The book / The film
on January 15, 2014 at 7:05 pm ×
Two weeks left of the monster Kickstarter project, and we had a great boost yesterday when Kickstarter themselves chose Seaside Donkey as their project of the day. Such waves of kindness, support and enthusiasm about the book and film are coming in from all over the globe – this is […]
After the walk
on January 12, 2014 at 11:44 am ×
I’ve never pretended to have any idea of what’s going on in Chico’s mind, and he certainly is his own donkey – an enigma wrapped in a woolly winter coat, wrapped in Welsh mud. It’s unsurprising that an attempt to put words in his mouth could only go amusingly awry… […]
After the walk / The blog / The book / The film
on December 31, 2013 at 5:26 pm ×
I think this might be the most exciting year that I have ever been preparing to tuck under the muffly duvet of the past, sent off with an affectionate kiss on its glowing forehead, with a big glass of something cheerful and forward-looking waiting for me downstairs. Goodnight, 2013; I […]
After the walk / The blog / The book / The film
on December 19, 2013 at 10:17 am ×
Christmas is coming, and what better gift could you give or request than a promissory note for a book and film so fresh that they haven’t even been made yet?! How often do you get the chance not just to buy something, but to bring it into existence? Sounds pretty […]
After the walk / The blog / The book / The film
on December 11, 2013 at 9:45 am ×
So, here we are; the BIG ASK! After busying away for a month I’ve come up with a whole menu of things to offer people as part of the next scary adventure: getting the book and film made, with your help. If you’ve not come across crowd funding (often referred […]