""I have never consciously chosen to keep on working, for example, even though I’m the proud owner of a Freedom Pass (…"

""Loneliness is the scourge of old age, which means there has never been a better time to enjoy those water-cooler mom…"

""I’m running in the last lap of life. But instead of relegating myself to deterioration, I try to regard myself as si…"

"When you have 50 per cent of women filling the top jobs, it becomes just uninteresting. Now, a few stand out – a few …"

""There’s no right way of doing it. Nobody looks at blokes in boring suits and criticises them"."

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"

"Waterlog (1999), Roger's now-classic account of swimming through Britain, published twenty years ago this year, opens…"

"In 1973, Roger Deakin, a British writer and environmental activist, acquired a tumbledown sixteenth-century farmhouse…"