191/365 Bodmin Jail – some history and lots of pretty windows
Today’s ice cream – lemon crunch. Posted with Blogsy
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Boy Three and his feathered friend Theoretically being trapped in a tin box with hundreds of strangers for hours on end is exactly the kind of thing to fill me with horror. No escape, no alternative...
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A bicycle made for two We had a fabulous holiday in Holland and were inching our way aboard the ferry for the waterborne part of our homeward journey when it happened. The car in front of us – a shiny...
View ArticleWhat we did in Holland on our holidays
One of the things we did was debate – at length whether it was OK to call it Holland. Boy One, insisted it was The Netherlands despite maps showing him we were in South Holland. We learned the joys of...
View ArticleHolidays – a time of spiritual renewal or just an excuse for a kip on the beach?
Here’s a thought. Do you think our two-week break from the humdrum restores our souls or is it all about getting a lie-in and on the other side of some large gins? I know the bucket-and-spade ritual...
View ArticleAuschwitz: unequal to the task
This weekend we travelled to Poland and visited Auschwitz and Birkenau. I called this post unequal to the task because there’s nothing I can say about the place and what happened there that would come...
View ArticleA fine fellowship of women
Sometimes, I don’t like people very much. In theory they’re great – the idea of other humans is very warm and fuzzy indeed. I love them between the pages of a book, on telly and even on social media....
View ArticleWhy I love getting the sleeper
My favourite way to travel to London is by sleeper train. It gives me a sense of how Harry Potter felt when he pushed his trunk and owl-laden trolley into the other world of platform 9 3/4. Instead...
View ArticleSki-ing again after 10 years – things I learned
Sloping off. On the piste. Whatever ski-related cliché you fancy – that was me the other day. I ski-ved off for a ski break with Fiona Outdoors to Morzine. Apart from the wee sojourn to Glencoe which...
View ArticleThings I learned from going up the Glasgow Tower.
You can see for miles and miles and miles It’s not, in fact, broken. It first opened in 2001, proud above the Glasgow skyline, back before that part of the city became trendy. I don’t remember the...
View ArticleAdvice for would-be family camper
Family camping bliss, but don’t worry it didn’t last At first glance, camping is wonderful. It’s cheap, it’s simple, it fosters adventure and togetherness and – if photos are to be believed – everyone...
View ArticleGozo: things we’ve learned so far
What a lovely place this is – so quite and far from all that Brexitery. Wonderful. It has taken a few days to shake myself free of the holiday torpor. I’d embraced inactivity with such gusto, I was...
View ArticleWhen we went to Gozo…
Less than a week since we came home and already the photos are making me sigh fondly. We went to Gozo on our hols this year, stayed in an Airbnb place and had a ball. Here’s what we learned. If you...
View ArticleA holiday less average… Secrets of the typical Brit abroad
Not quite a week and already the tan is fading faster than the sand fly bites. We’ve passed through the usual back-to-normal phases: Good grief it’s great to be home I’m on top of the world and I can...
View ArticleA fine fellowship of women
Sometimes, I don’t like people very much. In theory they’re great – the idea of other humans is very warm and fuzzy indeed. I love them between the pages of a book, on telly and even on social media....
View ArticleWhy I love getting the sleeper
My favourite way to travel to London is by sleeper train. It gives me a sense of how Harry Potter felt when he pushed his trunk and owl-laden trolley into the other world of platform 9 3/4. Instead...
View ArticleSki-ing again after 10 years – things I learned
Sloping off. On the piste. Whatever ski-related cliché you fancy – that was me the other day. I ski-ved off for a ski break with Fiona Outdoors to Morzine. Apart from the wee sojourn to Glencoe which...
View ArticleThings I learned from going up the Glasgow Tower.
You can see for miles and miles and miles It’s not, in fact, broken. It first opened in 2001, proud above the Glasgow skyline, back before that part of the city became trendy. I don’t remember the...
View ArticleAdvice for would-be family camper
Family camping bliss, but don’t worry it didn’t last At first glance, camping is wonderful. It’s cheap, it’s simple, it fosters adventure and togetherness and – if photos are to be believed – everyone...
View ArticleGozo: things we’ve learned so far
What a lovely place this is – so quite and far from all that Brexitery. Wonderful. It has taken a few days to shake myself free of the holiday torpor. I’d embraced inactivity with such gusto, I was...
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