Author Archives: Martin

We managed to get “the best of the day”, as our parents would have said (i.e. the part of the day when it wasn’t actually raining), and walk from Cooper’s Hill in The Cotswolds, where the annual cheese-rolling competition is held … Continue reading →

On 1 July 1916 19,240 British Empire servicemen were killed on the first day of the battle of The Somme. By the end of the battle on 18 November 1916 – one hundred years ago today – 127,751 were dead … Continue reading →

Walking from Ladye Bay, north of Clevedon.

My chum Sweaty (many of my friends have bizarre and/or unflattering nicknames, although in Sweaty’s case, entirely justified) set a run on Sunday starting/ending in Gloucester Road, Bristol, and incorporating St Andrews, St Werburghs, Fairfield School, Muller Road, Stoke Park … Continue reading →

Bristol, near the Create Centre, Cumberland flyover.

…look, it’s what old people do, all right? More about the exhibition HERE.