A fool on a hill

(Apologies - the pictures aren't very good: it was a very dark morning.) A week or two ago, I was walking with Nessie up on the ...

On one level, this is a book about a couple who walked the South West Coastal Path, non-stop – all 630 miles of it. As you can see, it h...

It's going to be obvious anyway from this post - but I am a staunch Remainer. There. Said it. I think we should stay in the EU for many ...

We don't often get much snow in this part of Somerset (the Mendips) - so here are a few pictures to celebrate the heavy snowfall on Thur...

Something a little bit different for today's post. I volunteer on the SS Great Britain, Brunel's famous ship, permanently moored n...

A friend recommended this book to me, and I'm so grateful to her! It concerns Count Alexander Rostov, a Russian aristocrat who in 1922 i...

This is a riveting read, though not a comfortable one: indeed, how could it be in any way comfortable when at the heart of it is a brutal ra...