Author Archives: Martin

When we moved into out present house, five years ago, most traces of the natural world had been removed from the garden via the use of decking and plastic sheeting. We were told by neighbours that the soil was not … Continue reading →

Bristol’s mayor George Ferguson has endorsed another “Special Sunday” in Bristol. “Park on Park Street” saw the steep road shut to traffic today, with stalls, music, food, etc. Bristol is becoming an increasingly fun place to live, and our new … Continue reading →

One of the benefits of not working much any more is that we can go away at short notice when the weather forecast looks good. We took the newly-tarted-up Freda to the west coast of Wales and spent a few … Continue reading →

A few years ago we walked The Thames Path, from the Barrier in London to Lechlade in Gloucestershire. There are some photos here: wolffsys.co.uk/albums/thamesPath. We didn’t go further upstream, to the official source of the river, because we’d been told … Continue reading →

Our old camper has “had some work done”, as they say. Her top has been touched up and she’s been tightened a bit “down below”. The old girl’s looking good for her age!

We walked the eastern part of this disused canal, from Stonehouse, under the M5 motorway (nearly as exciting as it sounds!) ending at the Saul Junction Marina on the Gloucester-Sharpness canal.

Haven’t been to Kew Gardens for a while. The nearest we got recently was walking past when we were “doing” the Thames Path.   Afterwards, we walked along the south side of the river, over Chiswick bridge and back to … Continue reading →

Filling in the bit we missed on previous visits.

More of the partially-derelict Stroudwater Canal. This stretch out of sequence due to vagaries of the Saturday bus schedules.