Category Archives: personal blog

When I was 9 or 10 years old I spent a lot of my summer holidays in Swanage. I would do a lot of walking, the lighthouse, Durlston and the Globe, Peveril Point, the pier, and very occasionally,, the amusement arcades, when I could con some money out of my Mum. Up on the Downs,Continue reading “682 – Bowls”

Having had very nice day, up until late afternoon I hadn’t managed to get out for a walk. We needed a few birthday cards posting, and it needed to be in a postbox that would be collected in the morning in time for the afternoon forwarding. Taking the opportunity for a walk, I said thatContinue reading “681 – A quick walk”

I’m reading Country walking issue 434, July 2022, reading the article from page 48. A walker and a geologist are exploring a part of wales where the geologist works. It’s not the walking but the story that is told about the area, and then sidelines such as finding the most boring grid square in theContinue reading “680 – CW Magazine and The Discovery Centre”

The rest of this post is a bit disjointed. They are the notes I dictated as I was walking toward the midway point of my walk. The dictation tool isn’t perfect, it is pretty good but just needs a little bit of editing. Sorry it’s a bit disjointed – good practice for improvisation. There’s justContinue reading “679 – The Morning Walk”

I am very aware that my writing is a bit dry. In an effort to inject some feeling I did an experiment by using the dictation mode on the iphone and dictating what I felt about what my senses were telling me; The sounds of the Morning Chorus, the noise of four squirrels playing inContinue reading “678 – Now, that was annoying!!”

I’d been awake since about 4AM. I had been thinking that I would take advantage of being awake to get up early, no not that early, 0520 instead of 0535, not too mad. But it would give me an opportunity to do a bit of videoing before the #Breakfastclub starts. Getting up that 15 minutesContinue reading “677 – Out in the morning”

There are many articles and books that I have read where I have thought, I really wish I could write like that. Even down to the latest issue of country walking, I’m only on page eleven and the author of the article is waxing lyrical about the waves of flowers he is seeing. I sometimesContinue reading “676 – A bed of Daisies”

The book by Richard Bach was published in 1970. I’m not sure when I read it. But I can remember that the book caused a bit of a stir. I also recall, that having read it I recall not really understanding it. Perhaps it’s time to read it again. We’d had a lovely and productiveContinue reading “675 – Jonathan Livingstone Seagull”

We paid a flying visit to Swanage today. We didn’t do much more that just sit in the car and watch the sea. But, we were absolutely fine with that. You might think what a waste of a trip, why didn’t you go and look and around, and even worse, why didn’t you take anyContinue reading “674 – Swanage”

In a small barn, in a place that I know and love, a family of swallows have set up home. These incredible birds have flown all the way from Africa, to make their home here. That they destroyed part of the ceiling to build their mess, and are leaving a pile poo on the floorContinue reading “673 – Swallows”