Walk 1,000 Miles In A Year

For a few years now, my wife and I have accepted a challenge set by Country Walking Magazine to walk 1,000 miles in a year. The weekly milage required to achieve this is actually only 19.23, which is hardly a marathon. We both love walking, getting into the countryside and enjoying the freedom and serenity …

Continue reading Walk 1,000 Miles In A Year

#ScenicSaturday 26th April 2025

Coastal Cornwall. I post these pictures of the natural beauty of our world to show how unique and irreplaceable it is. I’m simply presenting scenes I hope will please, and maybe inform, readers here.Links to items mentioned can be found at the end of the post.This one depicts part of the stunning coast of the …

Continue reading #ScenicSaturday 26th April 2025

Women In The Picture, by Catherine McCormack: #BookReview.

Subtitled ‘Women, Art and the Power of Looking’, this book entered my reading list as a resource for research for a novel I’m writing.It has filled that requirement far better than I ever imagined. The breadth and depth of research the author has conducted to compile this treatise on the misogyny and injustice dealt out …

Continue reading Women In The Picture, by Catherine McCormack: #BookReview.

#ScenicSaturday 26th October 24

This week's post is here, on Medium. That's where all future posts in the series will be.

#ScenicSaturday 19th October 24

This feature is now exclusively posted on Medium. You can access it here.

#ScenicSaturday October 12th 2024.

This series of posts depicts our beautiful world, hopefully encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from human carelessness and indifference. Please note the changes to this series, detailed below.Today’s photo is from the Forest of Dean. This track passes through a plantation of mixed evergreens and deciduous …

Continue reading #ScenicSaturday October 12th 2024.

#ScenicSaturday October 5th 2024

Kilnsey Crag from Conistone This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo was taken in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, from a walk near Conistone, looking toward Kilnsey Cragg. The area is a beautiful …

Continue reading #ScenicSaturday October 5th 2024

#ScenicSaturday September 28th 2024

This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo was taken during our holiday to celebrate our Wedding Anniversary, last year, on the lovely Greek island of Zakynthos. We’d walked from our comfortable hotel down …

Continue reading #ScenicSaturday September 28th 2024

#ScenicSaturday September 14th 2024

This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo was taken along a rough road in the Forest of Dean. It serves English Forestry and their contractors when they’re felling, planting, or thinning the trees, …

Continue reading #ScenicSaturday September 14th 2024

#ScenicSaturday September 7th 2024

This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo was taken on a trip to Italy to celebrate our 30th Wedding Anniversary in 2018. We were staying in the small town of Stresa, on the …

Continue reading #ScenicSaturday September 7th 2024

#ScenicSaturday August 31st 2024: 

This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo was taken along the banks of the River Wye on a walk beside the water. It’s one of our favourite spaces. Usually peaceful, the river has …

Continue reading #ScenicSaturday August 31st 2024: 

#ScenicSaturday August 24th 2024: 

Cadger Lane This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo was taken at the edge of the small market town of Driffield in East Yorkshire. It shows Cadger Lane, in existence certainly since 1642, …

Continue reading #ScenicSaturday August 24th 2024: 

#ScenicSaturday August 17th 2024: 

This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo was taken not far from Middleham in the Yorkshire Dales, a pretty little village with nearly as many horses as people! It’s also the site of …

Continue reading #ScenicSaturday August 17th 2024: 

Oddities Observed On Outings #20

In this continuing series I’m looking at things seen when out walking. Some of the objects will be familiar to certain readers, but many are likely to be unfamiliar to most. I’m presenting those that caught my attention through their incongruity, idiosyncrasy, or simply their odd appearance.These were taken over a few years, as I …

Continue reading Oddities Observed On Outings #20

#ScenicSaturday August 10th 2024: 

This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo was taken on the banks of the River Wye as it runs through the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Part of its 155-mile (250 km) route from …

Continue reading #ScenicSaturday August 10th 2024:Â