“… the best writing I’ve read for ages. Better than whole books of empty narrative, this little bit of autobiography climbs through the important things in life” Prof Terry Gifford, Director, International Festival of Mountaineering Literature WHILE GIANTS SLEEP Andy Christopher Miller Award-winning poet, Andy Miller, has published essays, articles and poems about climbing, mountaineering, Read the full article…
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Peninsular days
(In the deep mid-winter of 2003/4, I hit upon the idea of walking the 630-mile South West Coast Path. I envisioned this would take as long as it took although my tentative plan was to make two week-long trips each year over four years. I invited many of my friends to accompany me on each leg Read the full article…
A job interview, a demagogue, a real-life squire – and not many equal ops!
(An extract from Chapter 9 of ‘The Ragged Weave of Yesterday’ by Andy Christopher Miller. The verbatim extracts in italics are from the 1972 volume of my diaries) Mon 22nd May 1972 – The school was a very pleasant building – an old village school hall with new rooms built into it … There were Read the full article…