Category Archives: Watery things

Don’t make me hate you, Colin

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

It’s oddly paradoxical isn’t it, how someone being ridiculously over-friendly, over-solicitous and nice makes you want to kill avoid them? No? Just me then. Colin, the irritating chap from the Fast Show sketch who tells terrible jokes and laughs at … Continue reading →

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Getting hammered at Lyme Regis

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

The kid ahead of me on the beach must have been about four years old. He wore baggy little jeans, warm red jacket and cute little bobble hat pulled well down over his ears against the cold. He was so … Continue reading →

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Lyme Surprise

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

Lyme Regis was a surprise which turned into a delight.  Sounds a bit gushing, but it’s true. The town sits at the bottom of hills where the rushing River Lym flows into the sea.  I loved the beautifully preserved Georgian … Continue reading →

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A tale of two rides

Posted on March 26, 2013 by

It’s Spring!  Everyone says so and the evidence was all there when I went for the first of a couple of really peachy longish bikes rides about ten days ago. There were lots of tweety birds in the lanes, small … Continue reading →

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Movie celeb at Gloucester Docks

Posted on March 26, 2013 by

  The thing about a new arrival at Gloucester Docks is that you can generally spot it from some distance. So it was with the latest visitor – a celebrity tall ship who’s starred in too many films to list … Continue reading →

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Tough Love…

Posted on February 23, 2013 by

…Or How My Parents Could Have Killed Me. Talking to a pal yesterday, the subject of siblings and childhood came up and I mentioned that my little brother and I have always got on well – probably because, in our … Continue reading →

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2012 in pictures

Posted on February 6, 2013 by

Well I thought about writing a blog reviewing 2012 and then I thought, but hang on uno momento, if a picture is worth 1,000 words, why not just plunder the photo albums?  So I did. These are mostly Wales, Gloucestershire, … Continue reading →

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Otterly quacking

Posted on February 4, 2013 by

It’s always the same story at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge, Gloucestershire after I’ve flashed my membership card and I’m walking getting that first view of the patchwork of lakes designed by Sir Peter Scott. All at once, … Continue reading →

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Pictures at an exhibition

Posted on January 28, 2013 by

We went to the Natural History Museum on Saturday to see the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition. It’s an annual competition and the exhibition’s been a regular thing on my calendar for about five years now  Sometimes I’ve seen … Continue reading →

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Mooving

Posted on January 24, 2013 by

Going out to play on my mountainbike in the snow was a blast. I’d nipped out on Sunday but there wasn’t enough snow – an inch or two makes it muddy, filthy slushy riding.  But yesterday we’d had another two … Continue reading →

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