Do you remember the beloved I-SPY series? Pocket sized travel boredom cures from yesteryear, guaranteed to drive your navigating parents to dispair and only second in effectiveness to Barley Sugars.
I-SPY Birds, Castles, Classic Cars, Wild Flowers, On a Car Journey, Flags, even On the Pavement… I must have had the lot (thanks Mum). …More»
This weeks customary Saturday morning stroll took me to Freston woods, just inland on the Shotley Peninsula, on the high ground overlooking the Peewit paradise in the distance.
Although only a stones throw from home, and for no obvious reason beyond a more natural pull toward the river, this is still alien territory for …More»
It was brutal down on the front, with an icy northern wind and that ‘what on earth are were you thinking’ smeary dreary rain, but against all logic I was determined we’d go for a ‘nice’ stroll come hell or highwater.
Shotley sits at the head of the peninsula, at the clashing point between …More»
Early last Saturday morn we (that’s me and Father Forté) headed for the old Ha’Penny Pier in Harwich, armed only with flask, thermals and binoculars. We were greeted by a gaggle of similarly shivering (but smiling) folk all destined for the intrepid mist laden voyage up the Stour on the Victor.
