Mark and Hugh's Entertaining and Educational Articles

For more than a year from spring 2020 through lockdowns of varying intensities and beyond, writer Mark and cartoonist Hugh lifted our sometimes sombre spirits and kept us entertained with their time consumingly researched, cleverly concocted, relevant and thought provoking, informative and often educational, always entertaining and sometimes quite hilarious, articles and cartoons. 

Pictured at the top of this page is one of our favourites, Excalibur from Pond Life! You can read the story accompanying this one here.

Click on the links below to read and enjoy them all!

Goodbye from Mark and Hugh - June 2021
Working from home
Here's to happiness - the merits of enduring love
Our island with a khaki slant
Stallions in the New Forest
History of the National Game
The miracle of tides
Shirley Williams tribute
Please don't feed the animals
The Europe we love
The weather, a force with which to be reckoned
Praise for the all involved at the vaccination centres
Birds of a feather
Hurst Castle
Send in the clowns
Food glorious food
The power of good - and tribute to Sir Tom
Old school, new school, young school
Dreaming of holidays
Miracle or monster? Modern communications
RNLI and Lymington Lifeboat
Happy New Year Resolutions and Revolutions
Merry Christmas 2020
What our cars say about us
The litter pickers of the New Forest
A roof over your New Forest head
Richard St Barbe Baker
Our star, our sun, our salt!
To Lymington or Cuba
The Auld Mug
Seeds of success
Moonlit meeting with cetaceans 
Trees and what they tell us
Cartography and trig pillars
Pony drifts and pannage in the New Forest
A journey from the New Forest via Lymington
The brilliance - and persistence - of Marconi
Equality in the skies
Bees pollinators par excellence 
Cordless home entertainment
The joy of sheds
When the Isle of Wight was just Wight
Bucklers Hard
Salisbury Cathedral 
Pond Life in our Forests 
Bombs Away 
Baileys Hard 
Rufus Stone and Sir Walter Tyrrell
Graffiti through the ages
Freedom of the roads
Heath fires
Lymington Lido
Watch the birdie
Unstoppable momentum of nature
Socially distanced socialising
Calshot Spit, a curse for mariners...