Blog coming alive again! (Nov14)
My blog is coming alive again. It’s been asleep for quite some time!
Moved house – and have limited access to broadband (Jun12)
I’ve just moved house – just over the border from Somerset to Dorset. Loads of boxes to unpack and things to do. But the most difficult issues is that there’s no broadband or landline phone and mobile telephone connections are poor. We’re working on this and should be up and running properly by August. In […]
Eat Dorset Food Fair (Oct08)
Another sunny weekend for the Eat Dorset Food Fair. Set in the magnificent park at Parnham House near Beaminster, this is an annual event I really enjoy. The last couple of years I spent some time over the weekend selling books with Sara Villiers from the Bailey Hill Book Shop in Castle Cary. It’s one […]
Autumn pleasures… (Sept08)
Picking apples and blackberries in the beautiful autumn sun has only been surpassed listening to the sound of bagpipes whilst watching kites waving around against a deep blue sky. The last couple of weekends have been truly magical. The Dorset Kite Festival is annual event on Eggardon Hill near Powerstock. It’s truly spectacular even when […]
Supermarkets vs french markets…. (Sept08)
Even with the wind and rain lashing around our beach hut on the Dorset coast, we had a great couple of days. There were sunny spells and we had lots of visitors. Somehow the weather didn’t matter that much. We stocked up for supplies from the large supermarket in Bridport – but this was more […]
Getting into the swim (Sep07)
Last year I didn’t have a proper holiday – a couple of days camping in the rain in Cornwall. In fact I can’t remember when I last had a holiday in the sun. So this year’s family trip to stay with friends in the South of France was really exciting – the first week in […]
Walking in the woods (Apr07)
I haven’t seen much of the sunny Spring weather over Easter but did manage a lovely walk on Lewesden Hill, outside Stoke Abbott in Dorset. Wonderful beech trees – and one of the had a rope for Connor (my eldest son) and his friend Josh to swing out over the trees. It looked quite scary. […]