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We started at Clearwell Caves, ancient iron mines. The woods have “scowls” where iron ore was mined in the iron age (when else?), and the trees grow around stones, like the nearby “Puzzle Woods”.  

I first met Jim Brady (not my late, missed, uncle of the same name) in 1982, after seeing his paintings in an exhibition in the foyer of The Old Vic theatre in Bristol. I subsequently bought these pictures of people from … Continue reading →

John Cabot sailed from Bristol in the caravel Mathew in 1497, to “discover” Newfoundland (unlike all the people who were already there, waiting for him). We were walking down the south bank of the Avon when this ghostly replica, built in … Continue reading →

Sailing school in Poole harbour. We were having a picnic on the beach.

Horse in grounds of Muchelney Abbey in Somerset.

A few days at Caerfai Bay, near St David’s on the west Wales coast.