The road tunnel at Stonehenge is under review but looks as if it will be approved – finally. It’s all part of the upgrade to the A303 and will cost £1.6 billion in total. The tunnel [...]

This is an unusual year, with thirteen full moons. Because the lunar month is shorter than the calendar month, this happens every few years. The thirteenth moon can be seen on the night of the [...]

I realise, with the benefit of hindsight, how I gave little thought to my mental health throughout life. Work was my motivation and only now, as a pensioner, do I look back and sense the stress. [...]

I visited Stonehenge recently with friends. It was chill, misty and raining. Because it was torrential rain, we used the shuttle bus up to the stones and then followed the paths in a circular [...]

Lineage is an unusual word that arose when a celeb claimed to be a descendent of King Charles 1. A radio item also featured the word in a programme purporting to be about ancestors. In truth, it [...]

It’s a strange world. The news is full of plastic destroying the oceans whilst I am inundated with Christmas catalogues. If there seems no correlation between these two then turn the pages [...]

As a pensioner gardener, I assumed that most people know what bedding is, but I am clearly wrong. I noticed some wallflowers on sale in the centre of Christchurch. They were in bunches of ten, [...]

The Brent Geese have arrived in Christchurch Harbour; a time for celebration. For me an icon of nature’s cycle and a beautiful bird: For Zuri, food! Brent geese are small, like a large [...]

The 10 mile Dorset Stickler, with 1500′ of climbing, was run on the 28th October 2018. The weather gods dropped the temperature by degrees. As my wife Ann and I left Christchurch that [...]

It’s an odd finding; that men are far more inclined to buy plastic supermarket bags. Women, it appears, are not embarrassed to carry a reusable jute bag. Are men less green? Listening to [...]