Yorkshire Wolds Way

The Yorkshire Wolds Trail passes through chalk landscapes with dry valleys and stunning wildlife alongside market towns and ancient villages. May 13th – BBC One at 19.30 pm – walking the Yorkshire Wolds Way. Information on walking the Yorkshire Wolds Trail

Nymans

Nymans Gardens – very beautiful in late March with spring blossom This National Trust Garden can get very busy when it looks its most beautiful, about now. Visit early – there is only a small car park. It does have wheelchairs to borrow and rugs and paths are reasonably good. Look out for […]

Italy’s Invisible Cities

“Using the latest 3D scanning technology, Alexander Armstrong and Dr Michael Scott uncover the hidden history of Italian civilisation and city life. 360º videos of Naples, Florence and Venice” more

A-Z of Winter in Scotland

A to Z of Winter in Scotland

Abba is reforming – what about Roxettes?

Lovely views of Stockholm including one of my favorite places – Millesgården Sculpture Park

Soil Association Secret Review of Food offered for Children at UK Theme Parks, Art Galleries, Museums and Zoos

View the League Table

Panoramio

Very sad Panoramio is being shut down/replaced.. please visit while you can.. and be taken on a journey round the World with some of the most beautiful photographs i have seen. I know nothing lasts for ever – sometimes you just wish it would. http://www.panoramio.com/

Detective Montalbano: True Sicilians

(look out for the singing parrot)

Humphrey – Humpback/Baleen Whale

In the middle of making a small sculpture – 60cms high by 40cms long of a Whale made from Shetland and Finnish wool – greyish Have read Humpbacks are the noisiest and most imaginative Whales – creating long complex, eerie and beautiful songs.

Timur the Goat and new Best Friend

Breakfast on the farm

Farm stayed with my family last spring, near Amsterdam. We arrived late and took some time to find the farm on the polders. The farmer’s wife showed us in the dark to where we were staying in a converted barn and on the way there we passed the chicken roosting on a low branch of […]

Glamping, Peak District, Mulino Pods and little black cat

Had interesting journey up to the Peak District – went up M40/M6 around Birmingham and back down from Nottingham on the M1. Something ‘cool’ about driving down the M1 to London and sitting in service stations that spanned the whole motorway and watching cars speed underneath – that is until missed the turn off to […]

Escape to the Wild

Interesting programmes about how some people found their happiness in the wilderness Escape to the Wild – Kevin Mccloud

Why is Greece in trouble?

Being probably more right brain than left brain sort of person, know money handling is challenging but wonder how Greece – a very important ancient civilisation – got into this situation? Is it because of more young people leaving Greece and going elsewhere since entry in EU (or was this already happening) – taking with […]

Just passing by

Longer days and more outside, funny how thou we’ve had a mild wet winter, outside looks likes its waking up from deep sleep. Trying to grow more bedding plants and herbs than usual because hoping might be able to sell them at markets. So we’ve borrowed some metal hoops and buying some plastic to make […]

Warblington Castle

Grey wet day and all that remains of Warblington Castle, a fortified manor house near Hayling island. You wouldn’t believe, wading through the mud of the farm surrounding it, the history. We discovered it by accident, looking for ancestors – a sea captain and his family in the old church next door from 17th century. […]

Hiking in East Greenland

This is one of those things that up to now has been left undone, a memory of a hope, not mine – perhaps now with a little planning it is something to make happen Trip diary: Hiking in East Greenland

Touch of frost

L’Écoute – a sculpture by Henri Miller

Autumn and leaves are swirling past the window. This sculpture infront of l’Eglise St Eustache in Les Halles area of Paris. Les Halles, right in the center of Paris … fountains and beautiful landscaping, fringed by Irish pubs like Oscar Wilde or Quigeleys Point that stayed open all hours and cafes that you sat outside […]

Rainbow Organic Chocolates – Brighton Open Market