March
Spring starts with a hard frost and a bright sunshiney day. Two on the bounce. Maybe it’ll be a good year after all. I get up, make the coffee and […]
Category Archives: United Kingdom
February
I lay half awake at various points through the night, listening to the noise upstairs. The 3am brain transforms the muffled voices, the scrapes and bangs of furniture and footsteps, […]
January
‘Tis the season of the ominous glove. An abandoned, single hand reaches up from the mud. Fingers stretch out awkwardly from branches, hoping to be retrieved by their absent owner. […]
The United Kingdom: The West Highland Way
Preparation is never enough. I blame the wet winter, the cold spring. The failure of successive global governments to do anything at all about the impending climate crisis. I weigh […]
The United Kingdom: Hell Is For Heroes
The bus is already at St Clements as I emerge from the side street. Early or late, never on time. “Shit,” I say out loud, eyeing a gap in the […]
The United Kingdom: Winchester
Winchester, then. The cathedral city. The gateway to the South Downs. How have I ended up here? Old mates Gavin and Nicola normally live here for some reason. Instead of […]
The United Kingdom: Northumberland
In the only howling day of rain on our holiday we’re in the car. We stop on the way North in Alnwick, where Autumn has most definitely arrived. We pull […]
The United Kingdom: Whitby
The year slips in to the period where the clouds begin to look painted on. Renaissance skies stretch across the soft hills of my current world. We’re leaving in the […]
The Ridgeway: Ashbury to Middlehill Down
I’ve got plans in mind. We’ve got a long weekend, maybe we could get out to the Ridgeway twice. Maybe, maybe, maybe. We’re also approaching the time of year when […]
The Ridgeway: Ogbourne St George to Ashbury Hill
Every time I tell my Dad it isn’t going to rain again until October I hope I’m wrong. I don’t want to die this summer. I want the 5-7 years […]
I Don't Have The Map 