This page is dedicated to my life in the ‘real world’ in the cork forests of Portugal. I moved here in 1998, when I was a journalist, and started a campaign for the Iberian Lynxes called SOS Lynx, then raising my twin sons here for their critical first 2 years and for around 6 months as they entered their teens. It is home whenever I can make space in my life to be there. After my sons this place is everything to me.

The videos on my channel are made up of wildlife camera traps in the area, and my experiences of living the ‘goodlife’ in the Alentejo with my twin boys amongst the warm-hearted community and amazing wildlife of the region. Some of the early years were captured in these articles written for the Portuguese cork association, and adapted from my first diaries – weighty A4 tomes that were my record in the 90s before blogs were a thing. I am currently writing up these years, provisionally titled This Good(ish) Life, and it is fun!