Down by the sea…
Arrived in Southwold this afternoon in sunshine but it’s got colder and colder with a full on north eastern wind… It must have been that made the bike ride from Halesworth feel…ahem…harder than usual…...
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Arrived in Southwold this afternoon in sunshine but it’s got colder and colder with a full on north eastern wind… It must have been that made the bike ride from Halesworth feel…ahem…harder than usual…...
Managed to squeeze in a last minute visit to Brightling to see one of the five follies built by Jack Fuller – legend has it that he was buried inside, sitting up wearing a...
So – last day at the magic garden… We were in the Fruit Garden today, hoeing the gravel beds between the gooseberries and strawberries. Also planted up these pink tulips in the giant pots...
Today I have mostly been making these… Silver birch twigs twisted into rustic (very ‘rustic’ in my case) supports for tall flowers liable to get blown over.. This one is for the delphiniums. I...
This is the kind of volunteer gardening I like: wandering about with some yellow scissors and a pink trug, deadheading flowers that are looking a bit peaky… Not a double dig to be dug…...
Looking forward to a quiet evening and long sleep, I took my book down to the bar to get a drink and a bit of supper… A few ciders later I’d made friends with...
I’d forgotten how pretty the masses of blue on the road verges and in the woods of Sussex were… And the smell! A good start to my brief visit, even if I have wrenched...
The U75 walkers hit the Peak District this w/end.. fueled by an amazing rum cake, ale and the thought of the view from the top, we crossed about a mile and half of *very*...
in Dover Castle… We went down for a book launch (illustrated by my mum) and spent the afternoon exploring the castle and Dover. It felt like the first proper Autumn day we’ve had this...
Today was such a beautiful sunshiny day we set off with the book of South London walks and caught the train to Kent… Only one stop past Herne Hill it felt like the countryside...
Been a busy weekend with M doing an Offline night at the Albert, Actionette M getting married on Saturday and then off to Chichester on Sunday to see M’s uncle for his 60th birthday…...