We've been really enjoying this series of Digging for Britain. I think J is very taken with Alice Roberts' pink hair as he seems much keener to watch it than usua,l but it has been extremely interesting. We've still got two more programmes to go but if they keep up the "wow" factor of the first four I will be quite surprised. First there was the ( Read more... )

The weather yesterday morning was absolutely glorious, chilly but really bright, so we took advantage of it and went on a rather longer walk than usual to some woodland we don't visit all that often. As it was uphill most of the way we felt very well exercised when we got home. It's not so nice today but we went for another walk in our usual park ( Read more... )

While we wait...and wait...and wait...

It's a beautiful day today so we decided to make the most of the last of the autumn colours and walk up to a viewpoint quite near us and then down through the woods and park and back home in a circle.

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It is quite hard to keep cheery at the moment with the infection rate here climbing upwards and prophesies of doom for the winter. Luckily I had a Zoom exercise class this morning and then J and I went for a walk and discovered a new bit of the park we visit most weeks. It really seems to be like the TARDIS, bigger on the inside than the outside. ( Read more... )

We went for a slightly longer walk today so I am a bit tired but it was lovely to get some fresh air. We walked to one of the high wooded areas which are quite common around here but are apparently very interesting geologically. There is more about it here. Apart from the sound of trains in the distance, a man talking very loudly about his exercise ( Read more... )

Sorry I’ve not been around for a bit. We’ve had a few up and down patches with my mother which are always rather draining. There have been good things going on though.

We actually managed to go to our local indie cinema (resurrected by volunteers after the council closed it) to see A United Kingdom. This was the story of Seretse Khama, first ( Read more... )

It's been very sad on my LJ for a while so in an effort to cheer things up a bit here's a holiday pic spam ( Read more... )

The weather seems to have taken a serious turn for the not so nice today as it is grey and rather cold but we had a glorious day out yesterday.

It started well when we had one of these each for breakfast. I'm not usually a fan of odd flavours for Hot Cross Buns but these sounded so wacky I just had to buy them and they were a taste sensation. Now ( Read more... )

Brrr...it's rather colder today than it was yesterday. Lucky we chose yesterday to go for a walk along the Thames rather than today. J had the day off (last day of leave to use up) and we need the exercise so we decided to do a bit of the Thames Path from Putney to Kew. Basically we were walking along the route of next week's Boat Race...and then a ( Read more... )

I've been back for a while but as J has time off we've been doing stuff. The trip to Lincolnshire went OK and we got rid of quite a lot, including ma-in-law's Christmas cards from 1995, which J found stuffed in a box with knitting patterns. If nothing else this is a very good lesson on the evils of hoarding ( Read more... )