Author Archives: Martin

We’ve had the ludicrous idea of walking the Welsh coast this year, so we thought we should make a start. Beginning near Chepstow, near the island of Beachley. We walked to, and under, the “Old” Severn Bridge (now demoted from … Continue reading →

It’s important not to let her get a head start!

I worked, briefly, in this Bristol building over fifty years ago. It is at the junction of Bristol Bridge, Baldwin Street and High Street, at the corner of the pre-war and pre-Luftwaffe main shopping streets, now Castle Park. It was … Continue reading →

W and G visited, partly to meet our grand-children but also to get Sall to dress a well-travelled crab. It’s a long story. A week later, Jan and Simon, visiting from Australia, braved storm Bert to see us with Gill … Continue reading →

Walking along the beach between Dunster and Blue Anchor in North Somerset, Sally took this picture of a row of well-camouflaged knots (or sandpipers) along the shore line. The posts are some sort of old break-water, or maybe WWII sea … Continue reading →

Natural colours on a boulder on the beach between Seaton and Beer in Dorset.

Last time we came to Ogmore we had to move our car after an hour because we couldn’t work out how to pay for more than an hour in the beach carpark. We met MFE&L, and Esme immediately headed for … Continue reading →

Bridgwater, in Somerset is not a normal leisure destination. It hasn’t fully recovered from it’s reputation for being “a bit smelly” due to a cellophane factory which closed in 2005. It is now a mixture of modern housing and offices, … Continue reading →

Severn Beach, in South Gloucestershire, was a housing estate project in the ‘sixties, but still has echoes of past industrial activity, with its own railway station at the end of the line from Bristol, and old ferry connections to Wales … Continue reading →