Beautiful day on the Somerset Levels. Listening to the boom of the bittern and watching marsh harriers and great white egrets. Stopped in our tracks by a black cap who perched on a branch a metre or two away, and sang. Pure joy. Oh, that’s Glastonbury Tor in the background. […]
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West Kennet Long Barrow
Three things I’ve discovered yesterday. First. I like to torture my children with exactly the same walks as I was tortured with as a teenager, and I don’t feel sorry. Two. I don’t care if someone calls a day the saddest day of the week, it makes no sense. Nor is it […]
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The time between Christmas and New Year is one of my favourites. We take the week off apart from monitoring emails. It’s a quiet time of the year and only three working days, so it works out perfectly. The manic buying of presents is over and leftover meals are on […]
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