Emerald's blog for documenting making, doing and finding things interesting...
View east along Margate beach, taken standing on the edge of the tidal swimming pool. [Edited to add: apparently now classified as a ‘boating’ pool due to Health & Safety regs, although many swimmers choose...
Brompton cemetery, built in 1840, is one of London’s ‘Magnificent Seven’ garden cemeteries (the others are Kensal Green, West Norwood, Highgate, Abney Park, Nunhead and the Tower Hamlets Cemeteries, all established between 1832-1841) It contains 35,000 monuments from lavish...
Some friends and I walked around 7 miles in the Autumn fog and sunshine from Leyton to the Tottenham Hale. The route took in marshes, cows, defunct filter beds, monumental art, canals, tree climbing and...
Walking around central London recently you can’t help but notice the amount of construction (and destruction) that is going on, and I like to peek into the holes thinking that they are brief windows into the history and anatomy of...
A beautiful walk from the ghost village of Tyneham, across M.O.D land – accessible most weekends after public pressure applied in the 70s – up to Flowers Barrow, then down into Worbarrow Bay.
Signs painted by local children on a hoarding around Durlston Castle; it used to be a restaurant, but now is undergoing restoration as part of the Durlston Project
Went on a lovely long walk in the Autumn sunshine yesterday along the Timberland Trail… Starting off very suburban, we soon found ourselves having a picnic in a ‘spinney’, walking through woodland and across...
The U75 Country Walk took us to the flatlands this weekend; we took the train to Hunstanton, then got a lift to the bunkhouse in Deepdale. The walk took us along marshes, sand dunes...
Yay! I did it… 44km in 8 and a half hours… owwwee am I paying for it today though! Feel like I have ground my hip sockets into dust a bit, although am pleased...
Finally, I’ve put some photos up from the Swiss Heidi adventure. Loved it, loved it, loved it… Want to go back sharpish and climb some more mountains :)
Have been walking (some) of the designated km each day in the build up to the 44km (eek) I’ll be doing in September – even bought some ‘proper’ walking shoes so hopefully blisters will...
We went cycling / walking in Dartmoor over the weekend; taking the foldy bikes on the train, cycling to Princetown from Plymouth along the Plym Valley Way. The walk on Saturday was sunny and...