It was snowing outside again today, and the wind had an ice-cream headache cold edge to it. Not a day for lingering outside and I want to write so I ended up flicking through a notebook for ideas and came across a few words written in the summer while sitting on the beach in the … Continue reading A Quiet Life II: a moment in time
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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
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
Wordless Wednesday #62: a day at the beach, Clevedon, North Somerset
The ‘Purton Hulks’: a ship graveyard on the Severn Estuary, Gloucestershire
It's been quite a while since I last posted anything here, not for lack of stories or things to say, but rather one of the mental space to do so. In fact, I'm writing a lot at the moment, finishing up a big project at work – a Viking-Age hoard of coins and silver objects … Continue reading The ‘Purton Hulks’: a ship graveyard on the Severn Estuary, Gloucestershire
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