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flowers, food, great tube station architecture and museums along London's Superloop bus routes...
spring flowers and even blue skies in the Beth Chatto garden in Essex...
my latest theatre review www.thereviewshub.com/cable-street...
Relieving the winter gloom yesterday with spring flowers at Osterley, lights at Canary Wharf and - finally - rousing, relevant musical Cable Street at Marylebone Theatre. www.marylebonetheatre.com/productions/...
Lovely weekend with friends in Norwich, exploring the newly-revamped castle, the cathedral and the Sainsbury Centre...
Two days of art across London with a museum cafΓ©-crawl, including the V&A, the V&A East Storehouse, the National Galleryβs Radical Harmony exhibition and the Wallace collectionβ¦
The February issue of Country Walking is in newsagents now and with it some highlights of mine from a fabulous year of walking: the glorious Creswell Crags and Welbeck estate, gardens at Bowood in Wiltshire, the Norman castle and church at Orford, and coast path at Milford Haven in Pembrokeshireβ¦
my latest car-free coastal adventure for the Guardian www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...
yesterday's walk: a grey squirrel, reindeer skulls, a wolf supermoon...
Wassail is celebrated in early January to wake up the trees in apple growing areas in South West England. The wassail cup enables orchard owners to offer refreshment when wassailers visit. Find this locally made wassail cup on the Multaka 'With These Hands' trail.
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βA watery gold sunrise lights the turbulent waterβ: the wild beauty of the Suffolk coast
A car-free Lake District adventure to visit the new observatory in Grizedale Forest www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
Heading into end-of-year mode and totting up the year's mileage. In 2025 I got 152 articles published, 1768 miles walked and 17 wild swims swum... Hoping for more of the same in 2026! Wishing everyone happy winter festivities. x x x x
January 2026 issue of Country Walking (out now) with four walks I did in the last year: snowdrops near Chippenham Fen (Cambs), rhododendrons in Sheringham Park, wooded Wimbledon Common and a beautiful heather-ringed loch in Aberdeenshire. Reminds me to start planning for the year aheadβ¦
Amazing walk along the Sallagh Braes near Larne (Antrim)
About to get the night ferry to Belfast - here's a moonlit view across the Mersey...
Light show in Southwark cathedral
first visit to Rutland Water...
autumn leaves are lovely this year...
Beautiful day on the Dales Way in Cumbria...
My latest theatre review - a spooky Halloween tale in the fabulous Mill at Sonning www.thereviewshub.com/the-shadow-i...
Yes, some strong flavours, but mussel curry tasted like a tub of curry powder and they couldn't even give us any bread to go with it all... not a fan. Overpriced wine, noise from downstairs... yes, all a bit odd.
after days of alternating showers and sunshine, a huge rainbow at the end of our road...
finally made it to Longthorpe Tower in Peterborough with its 14th-century wall paintings...
Exmouth in the sunshine...
wow!
www.cathedral.net/event-detail... Anyone in Edinburgh should take a look at this artwork in St Mary's episcopal cathedral....