I recently returned from a short break away with family, something I think the three of us needed after the months of lockdown. We decided to stay within the UK, not quite ready to tackle airports and planes and the rapidly changing quarantine laws, instead driving down south to the coast of Devon. And itContinue reading “A Short Break and A Holy Well”
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A Dorset Weekend With The Silent Eye – Part 2
Still officially on a blog break, I swear. But there is more to tell about my trip to Dorset, so here is part two of my weekend with The Silent Eye (for part one click here). Saturday morning arrived early. There was a lot planned, as there usually is on these weekends, so there wasContinue reading “A Dorset Weekend With The Silent Eye – Part 2”
A Dorset Weekend With The Silent Eye – Part 1
I know. It’s been a while since I’ve been here. And I’m still officially on a blog break. However, a few weeks ago I spent a weekend in Dorset with The Silent Eye, which I really wanted to write about, so here we are. It usually takes me a little while after such weekends forContinue reading “A Dorset Weekend With The Silent Eye – Part 1”
Wednesday Wander – Rocher De La Vierge, Biarritz
Last summer, I was fortunate enough to spend some time in Biarritz, located on the French coast. I absolutely loved it – the light, the water, the people, the food – it was just wonderful. I’ve written about it here and here, but for today’s Wander I’m going to go back to the town’s originsContinue reading “Wednesday Wander – Rocher De La Vierge, Biarritz”
Thursday Doors – In The Village
I had a little time after work the other day, so decided to photograph a few of the lovely Georgian doors in the village where I work. It’s a small high street, 16th century half-timbered pubs next to Victorian villas and tiny cottages, older timber framed buildings ‘modernised’ with Georgian facades. The village dates backContinue reading “Thursday Doors – In The Village”
Circles Beyond Time – Sorrow
This is the continued story of my weekend away with The Silent Eye. Please click here for instalment one and two. After the visit to Carl Wark and an excellent dinner, I returned to my hotel unable to do anything other than watch TV for a while before falling asleep, thoughts of finishing my shortContinue reading “Circles Beyond Time – Sorrow”
Thursday Doors – Blacksmith Row
This door is the end one in a row of three connected cottages called Blacksmith Row. There is no blacksmith there any more but, as with so many names in Britain, clues to the history of the place lie in the name. When Leverstock Green was a village, before the post-war new town developments madeContinue reading “Thursday Doors – Blacksmith Row”
Wednesday Wander – Portmeirion, Wales
I’ve chosen to wander to the village of Portmeirion, North Wales, this week. There are a couple of reasons for doing so; one, it’s a pretty interesting place and, two, it’s fifty years ago this week since filming started on cult television series The Prisoner, which used the village as its backdrop. The Prisoner starredContinue reading “Wednesday Wander – Portmeirion, Wales”
Found Objects – Horseshoe
A few months ago, I mentioned in a post that we were digging out an old raised vegetable bed at the end of our garden, in preparation for a new garden room/shed and decked area. In the course of the excavation our daughter was pottering around, poking through the piles of earth and rubble forContinue reading “Found Objects – Horseshoe”
Helen Glynn Jones 