Of all the hundreds of posts that I have written to date on this blog, I find none more difficult to construct than those which cover our visits to the Isle of Mull. Its wildlife and scenery is always outstanding, sometimes even unbelievable, and in trying to portray the sense Read more…
After the torrential downpour that was bank holiday Monday I was very happy to wake up the following morning to glorious sunshine. Fortunately for me I’d booked the day off work so headed down to Gower with the aim of walking the coast from Port Eynon to Oxwich. What I Read more…
On Saturday we woke early and by nine were already parked up in the small coastal village of Seatown in preparation for the days walk. Our destination was to be the top of Golden Cap, the tallest point on the south coast of England at 191 metres and a landmark Read more…
Plummeting temperatures and the end of a fortnights glorious sunshine coincided perfectly last week with our first camping trip of the year. Our destination for the long Easter weekend was to be Lyme Regis on the Dorset coast, a location famed worldwide for its fossil giving cliffs and spectacular scenery. Read more…
On Friday I spent a happy couple of hours down at Llanrhidian marsh on Gower watching the sun set. I was hoping to find my first Wheatear of the year but the usually reliable “bumps” proved rather barren with the exception of a Pied Wagtail and a couple of Grey Read more…
Carreg Cennen occupies a dominant position overlooking the village of Trapp and is widely regarded as one of if not the most dramatic of the Welsh castles. The original structure dates back to the twelfth century but it was heavily remodelled by John Giffard a hundred years later into the Read more…
I have been mentioning the coming of spring on this blog off and on now for the last couple of weeks, but after last Sunday I feel confident in saying that for me at least spring has definitely arrived. The first clue has been the increasingly vocal displays from our Read more…
Today for the first time this year I was home from work before the sun had disappeared below the horizon. I had just enough time to dash up the hill behind our house with the camera before an errant bank of cloud blocked the developing sunset from view. Given that Read more…
Last Sunday brought with it a huge swing in temperature from around minus seven to plus ten, all in less than twenty four hours. The snow of the previous day seemed a lifetime away as we once again drove towards Rhossili on Gower, catching sight of a Buzzard on its Read more…
The missing three weeks. It sounds like a title for the next Hollywood blockbuster but in truth its a simple introduction to me catching up on a blog that has been sadly neglected for much of January as work and life, with a very heavy emphasis on the former, have Read more…