Great British Escapades

Brewer's Loop, the sequel to  Gin, Cake & Rucksacks  is finally here!  After Karen & I toured Cumbria visiting all the gin disti...

I recently discovered this piece, written by my grandad in November 1935. He was a factory worker and he wrote about the remembrance day ser...

I decided that now might be a good time to put together a (not entirely serious) user guide for those folks visiting us for the very first t...

Sunshine on Grange prom I inherited my love for walking from my dad.  He never needed an excuse to walk and neither do I. Walking was his ...

As lockdown restrictions finally begin to properly ease - hopefully for good this time - there will be some people dreading the thunder of a...

Yes, I'm back blogging!  It's been a while I know but, to be brutally honest, like many folks, 2020/21 pretty much kicked the stuffi...

Another year, another lockdown, and we're as fed up and frustrated about it as everyone else, but it is what it is.  As someone who walk...