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As we walked out of our drive a month or two ago, we noticed an odd hole. There are no rabbits here and cats rarely make holes, just a smelly dump. We knew it was odd but thought no more about [...]

I love my garden. It is a place of boundless surprises. A plant comes into flower that you did not expect and brings joy. However, I tend to be bouncing around the plot doing this and doing that. [...]

I always find myself out of kilter with people, an oddity if you like. A person posting on a website I use for those of us with leukaemia could not wait to visit Greece. Is she suffering with [...]

I am in Shrewsbury, where Ann was born and where we married in 1971. At a cafe in Butcher Row, staring at all the older people walking past. After all, I might just know them. It proves futile. [...]

It is late July in the Peak District and a pastel blue haze is everywhere. No, it’s not the blue sky but a wildflower growing along the verges and on wilder areas. What a show it is, more [...]

Here I am, in the Shropshire Hills and hitting those climbs. If you don’t know this area then look up Church Stretton. It was not considered ‘little Switzerland‘ for nothing. [...]

The re-run of Civilisation on television has ended and I am sad. What an amazing personal view it proved to be. Also, what chance that anybody will be given such an opportunity today. When [...]

Ann and I had our first week’s holiday in four years, walking the South West Coastal Path. It was sunny and generally warm and pretty amazing. Seeing Polruan, the port opposite Fowey, for [...]

I am a walking example of skin damage due to sunshine. It would be easy for me to say stay out of the sun but that is not always possible. It may also be that there are those of us who have to [...]

Global warming and sport do not appear bedfellows. However, just looking at the recent Euro’s the sheer number of people travelling to watch football is mindnumbing. Yes, I understand the [...]