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We’ve avoided the annual trudge to the local muddy field where we buy our Christmas tree. I must admit that this is more at my suggestion than Sal’s. I’ve long suspected that she has a thing for the farmer who … Continue reading →

A new “walk” for us (that is, a documented, publicised route rather than just going where the fancy takes us with a map or local knowledge) is the Bristol Skyline which, perhaps not surprisingly, follows the high ground around Bristol, … Continue reading →

A colony of greater horseshoe bats lives here near Claverton Down, south of Bath.

It will be one hundred years since the end of the First World War in a few days time. Local school children have made this river of poppies, out of bottle tops, on the space in front of our house.

A crab sandwich on the beach at Beer in Devon on what could be the last day of our sporadic Indian Summer. It’s traditional.

14 Sept 2018. Apart from a chorus of insects (cicadas?) and owls, our night in the pine forest was free of disasters – both natural and unnatural. We drove a mile or so south to Lariño and parked by the … Continue reading →

4 Sept 2018. We got an earlier-than-booked ferry from Dover.  On our way south we detoured for a couple of nights at an old favourite, Bagnoles de l’Orne, in Lower Normandy. 7 Sept 2018. Then a site by a lake north … Continue reading →

We stayed in Folkestone so as to be ready for a morning sailing from Dover to France.  Folkestone is quite a nice, quaint in parts, town, but looking rather tired these days, unlike in my childhood when it was popular … Continue reading →

The river Lea used to mark, more or less, the boundary between London and Essex. It was an area to be avoided when I was a boy. The river itself was virtually a sewer, taking waste of all sorts down … Continue reading →