Tonight I visited one of the many Iron Age hillforts in the local area. The one atop Pilsdon Pen (one of the highest hills in Dorset at 277m, second only to Lewesdon) has a commanding view over the Marshwood Vale to the sea southwards, and far into Dorset,…
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It was such a glorious winter morning on the way to do my weekly shopping, I made a point of stopping on the way for a short walk. This scene presented itself for just about a minute before the mist engulfed the whole of Colmer’s Hill – a…
Unusually for me, a trip away from the West Country to the west of Scotland. A walk after breakfast near Dornie yielded this unexpected image, of sheep cropping the grass between a drift of bluebells up the hillside – which flower much later in Scotland than back home. The contre-jour…