Hi, welcome to my little corner of the internet.

I’m a time traveller, dreamer, and Dr of rocks, who feels most at home when surrounded by the wild world around us. A wondering earthling, who constantly asks ‘why’. Embracing joy, play, curiosity, learning, and connection, all through the lens of the natural world.

I’ve always been drawn to the rocks… as a feral child roaming the slippery Chiltern hills, as a geology student marvelling at the cavernous lava tubes of Mt Etna, and as a 30-something adult finding my footing in the Cheshire sandstone. My PhD took me back 92 million years: as an organic geochemist, I pieced together what the climate was doing using mud pulled from the bottom of a vast sea long since vanished. It’s the kind of deep-time detective work that means I still can’t look at a landscape without wondering what story its rocks are telling. Turns out that’s a pretty good foundation for helping other people slow down and look more closely at what’s underfoot.

Why Uncommon Ground? Well… doesn’t modern life feel so disconnected from the ground beneath our feet? From each other, as earthlings living and breathing together on this beautiful rock? I crafted this space for people who want that back: real connection with nature, with ourselves, and with each other. Wellness without the woo woo. Science that still makes space for how it makes you feel.

Come explore with me: read the blog, join me on a walk, or just send a message to say hi…