Lorna Doone farm
So it was the middle of the three full days that I spent in Exmoor and my schedule looked pretty full. The plan had been to get up bright and early to look for the seven trees [...]
Aysgarth Falls
I visited these waterfalls in the Yorkshire Dales back in the 1980s. I recall standing on a flat rock, not far from the lowest falls and watching as water the colour of strong tea [...]
Tree on the Roaches
It was nearly the end of my first full day in the Peak District and I had fallen head over heels in love with the place. Of course, I had overdone things as normal [...]
The Dolmen
It began with the alarm going off at 4.00 in the morning. It took a few seconds for me to realise that this wasn't our home alarm, so I fumbled around in search of the button to [...]
Secret winter garden
With only five days left of winter (who's counting?), I thought it would be nice to do one more blog post about the snow. Oddly enough, just as the days were getting [...]
Higger Tor
So, there I was on my last day in the Peak District and I had just given up on a location. My morning had started as usual at 4.00 when I woke to what appeared [...]
The wise trees
I adore snow. Maybe I'm still a child at heart, but when the first flakes of winter start drifting to earth, I couldn't be happier. I love watching it while snug and warm indoors [...]
The Valley of the Rocks
It was my final day in Exmoor and I woke yet again to more fog. There was no need to worry because I had already planned to spend the [...]
A fright on Burnham beach
I simply adored Burnham beach. I had no plans to visit until a couple of weeks before I left, but then I found some photographs of the square [...]
The wreck on Berrow beach
So who would believe it? You wait for over a year for a blog post about a wreck and then two come along at once! This is the SS Nornen [...]
The wreck at Crow Point
Crow Point is situated at the very end of Braunton Burrows. Even though I had read the area covered an amazing 1,500 acres, I was [...]
Porlock Weir
With abject apologies to a pretty little village, my first thoughts on parking our car next to the ancient harbour weren't exactly positive. I had completely overdone things [...]
Gorgeous Cheddar
I thought it was the steps that would be the end of me. All 274 of them going from the gift shop at the bottom of Jacob's Ladder, to the top of Cheddar Gorge. In fact [...]
Foggy lane
Running beside our property is a very long and overgrown coach road. Before we moved to the area I gather it was used by a few of the local horse riders, which must [...]
We’re having a heatwave
Or maybe not. According to Carol Kirkwood on the BBC, it takes at least four days of temperatures above 28C before we are [...]
Dungeness
Situated on the coast of Kent, Dungeness has one of the largest areas of shingle in Europe and is the only place in Britain to be classified as a desert by the Met Office [...]