… to take a lyric from the song popularised by many artists, though I usually think of Tony Bennet’s version. We try to walk down in Lyme Regis every morning before breakfast (a practice that may come to an end once the winter weather sets in) – something…
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A brief day of Indian Summer was just the right time for a walk near Brixham with a friend. We started at the car park at Berry Head by admiring the shimmer of sunlight on the distant sea, and then walked along to Sharkham Point and down onto…
The sky’s been very much in my thoughts recently – life on the ground has been quite trying so looking heavenwards has been a welcome distraction. This particular set of images has two very contrasting elements. The urban sky above the Barbican in central London on the 20th…
A lot of people complain about the Town Council (as in most communities, it’s always easier to complain than to praise) – but the gardening staff have done a wonderful job this spring and summer, despite the multiple inconveniences of lockdown. In this post, I’m sharing a few…
As an undergraduate geologist, my favourite subject was igneous and metamorphic petrology, so visiting the South Devon coast is always interesting, and this stretch is no exception. Pink, grey, mottled and black slates of the Meadfoot Group are striped and slashed with quartz veins. They make for all…
… when the living is not exactly easy for all sorts of reasons, but is certainly simpler – and sometimes, quite wonderful. Unable to sleep, I got up just after sunrise and found lots to enchant me just a few minutes’ walk from home. Despite the hour, it…
Taken as I did my daily walk before tackling the weekly shop in Seaton, “limpid” was the word that immediately sprang to mind as I gazed at the calm blue sea. The sea is often clearer here than at Lyme as there is less sediment from the cliffs,…
Just a phone snap from my morning exercise walk. Lyme Regis Town Council has done a good job in keeping the Lister Gardens tidy despite the lockdown. I was taken by the spurge in the foreground framing the view of a flat calm sea.
I like to think that I have a pretty extensive English vocabulary, but all that time at home in lockdown wondering what new to write about the Coronavirus must have sent journalists to their online thesauruses (thesauri?) for a bit of variety. Today, I came across two words…