Is there Much Wenlock? There is actually Little Wenlock! Confused? I'll explain. Little Wenlock is a village, a little south of the town of Wellington in Shropshire, and Much Wenlock is a small market town also in Shropshire. The 'Much' part indicates that it is larger than Little Wenlock. We stayed in Much Wenlock for […]
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Is there Much Wenlock?
25 September 2015 at 10:21 am 3 comments
mTicket to Ride
22 August 2015 at 8:40 pm 2 comments
No, it isn't a typographic error it's meant to be 'mticket'. I discovered something rather useful recently. It is that we can buy railway tickets on our railway line via a mobile phone and after paying for them they are then downloaded and stored on the mobile 'phone. These tickets can then be shown on […]
Dial-a-ferry
27 May 2015 at 9:07 pm 2 comments
Six weeks ago to the day we were going to do this very trip but I had a heart attack instead so it had to be cancelled. However no heart attack this time so we left home to do the short drive (10 miles) to East Mersea. You have probably not heard of East Mersea […]
Following the stones
13 May 2015 at 8:24 pm 1 comment
We started today with a little trepidation because 4 weeks ago to the day we were also going on a day trip, although to a different destination, and immediately after finishing breakfast I had a heart attack and was carted off to hospital where I spent the next 4 days. It turned out to be […]
Tunnels, tribulations and lots of time.
26 March 2015 at 2:52 pm 2 comments
Late last year I mentioned Brunel's tunnel under the Thames in our Return from Rotherhithe trip but I wasn't able to show you the actual tunnel. We can now rectify that omission. Isambard Brunel was nearly drowned whilst building this tunnel and you can read the story here should you be interested. We travelled to London […]
A rather fowl walk
19 February 2015 at 12:39 pm 2 comments
Some friends of ours (yes we have friends) visited us yesterday and it was a lovely sunny day so we went off for a walk. We parked a car at the proposed end of our walk and drove off towards our intended starting point. We went via an Indian Restaurant first for lunch in a […]
Today’s the day!
5 January 2015 at 2:01 pm 2 comments
As you will no doubt know the shortest day is either the 21st or 22nd of December. Thereafter the days start to lengthen but although sunset gets later so does sunrise. In other words immediately after the shortest day the mornings continue to get darker and did so until about a week ago. Sunrise then […]
Happy Christmas to everyone
23 December 2014 at 8:32 am 3 comments
A happy Christmas and a happy new year to all our visitors. We are now past the shortest day, either the 21st or the 22nd of December, and the days start getting longer although the mornings continue to get darker until the beginning of January. After that the days start to lengthen at both ends. […]
Here it comes again!
24 November 2014 at 10:06 am 1 comment
Winter that is. Yesterday it rained heavily. I showed this photograph to Amanda and she thought it was a small stream somewhere but when I said that I had taken it in our garden a few minutes before she recognised that it was one of our garden paths and we live on top of a […]
Return from Rotherhithe
29 October 2014 at 9:30 pm 8 comments
It all started so well too. We arrived, as usual, at Liverpool Street Station after an uneventful journey and walked down to Aldgate where, by chance, we discovered something that we weren't anticipating. This is a modern wooden monument which is standing on the site of one of the old London gates, namely, Aldgate. It […]
