We were lucky to choose a sunny day for exploring some South Devon beaches – not so easy this summer, which has been alternately cold…
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13th June A couple of years ago, I paid a mid-July visit to the wildflower meadows at Hogchester, just a couple of miles from where…
Poltimore House, near Exeter, has a very chequered history – a Tudor mansion made over in the C17th, added to in Victorian times and set…
If the last ghastly year has taught me anything, it’s that life is not an endless procession of opportunities, and I need to get on…
I last visited this Iron Age hillfort at the end of March (see here), and have just returned to see the bluebells at their peak…
I thought twice about the title of this page, having found Ian McEwan’s novel of the same name quite dire! But what the hell, that’s…
We all think of water as being more or less colourless, its appearance being dictated by the surroundings. Well, that’s true enough – think of…
Today promised warm fine weather, on only the second day from our very slow release from being locked up. I celebrated with a friend by…
“Well, who isn’t?”, one might ask. Not only does it make eating meals less messy, but also gives the collector of unconsidered trifles (that’s me)…