I've only been to Brean Down once, in early June last year. An outlier of the Mendip Hills to the east, it stretches into the brown-blue waters of the Bristol Channel rising to about 100m above the beach and the water. I'd wanted to visit and walk its length for some time, its location combined … Continue reading A Quiet Life #3: Brean Down, Somerset, June 2019
Wordless Wednesday #65
A quiet life #2: an autumn beach at sunrise, Budleigh Salterton, Devon
In the first proper post in this little series of diversions from the news, I wanted to look at one of my favourite places. I've chosen the beach at Budleigh Salterton in East Devon. Its gently curving, shelved pebble beach is framed by the western side of Lyme Bay, protecting Budleigh from the worst of … Continue reading A quiet life #2: an autumn beach at sunrise, Budleigh Salterton, Devon
Wordless Wednesday #64: social distancing…
A quiet life #1: blogging from a smaller world
Many of us are now living a rather odd life in the shadow of pandemic (now there's a sentence I was never expecting to write). Here in the UK we're now in a kind of partial lockdown, with schools, pubs, restaurants, museums etc all closed indefinitely, I'm working entirely from home and we're limiting how … Continue reading A quiet life #1: blogging from a smaller world
