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Each year I winter in a cottage near the Sally Gap road. It has no mains water or electricity. I burn peat to cook with and to stave of...

The Lake Somehow as a child I missed the Swallows and Amazons  series of books by Arthur Ransome. Looking for something easy to read ...

Having started reading this book  I am reminded of a David and Goliath moment in my business. Way back (before the year 2000) I had been sub...

This post is sort of a continuation of an earlier one . Three Castles A few miles from us there is a castle called Three Castles . Th...

In the field of dynamical systems an attractor is a set of numerical values toward which a system tends to evolve, so says Wikipedia .  An ...

Several years back the road past the Ardenode hotel was closed because a bridge over a stream had collapsed - it stayed closed for well over...

I woke up at my habitual 6 am, turned over in disgust and slept another hour or so. Then lit the boiler and went for my habitual constitutio...

I am tired of living a lie. But I am not even sure what the lie is or whether it really is a lie - I know it is something to d...

I watched Journey's End on Netflix the other evening. For those of you who have not seen it, one review summarises:  Led by young...

Whilst Sarah and the kids did Imaginosity , I took off to the sea, barefoot of course. It occurred to me on the way back, cold, wet, hungry ...

Here's a definition: Anything that makes you feel good is sensual. Like, a massage, eating chocolate, having a bath or shower, tickling,...

A friend, a few years older than me, sitting across the room has just returned from the US visiting her granddaughter. In telling us about t...

Cover picture by Hengki Koentjoro I was given a new book - a birthday present from MYD - and couldn't put it down. A beautifully...

Yesterday was Bartolome Esteban Murillo's 400'th birthday, so says Google - liking the image in the Doodle I checked up on the man a...

Gospel songs today have a lot to say They lift you up when you're feeling down Some have a country flavor, some have a modern ...

Yesterday the weather was permitting so I ran round the lake shore, Kings River end of the lake. The lake is starting to fill but it was sti...

Stock photo of Crantock beach, Pentire head beyond the Gannel Aunty Elsie lived in Crantock and this alone was sufficient qualificati...

Some more pictures taken on two lakeside runs.  Some of this under-foot is hard going when no shoes are allowed. Autumn Tree roots ...