Walking for talk’s sake…

There’s more too it than you think and less than you might sometimes expect. That’s the sort of nonsense I … More

The importance of washing up.

Dishwashers have been around for years now but there are good reasons for dispensing with them. First of all they … More

Cheltenham Race Week starts tomorrow, I think. I live down the road from the course but I’ve never been there. … More

Bibury The walk of a tourist who does not undertsand what he/she should be doing, or seeing, or indeed why … More

More true meanings of Gloucestershire place names, glossary meaning a collection of Gloucestershire place names, as you well know. I’m … More

Guiting Power The uncanny way that a vicar is able to pedal a very heavy bicycle at a constant speed … More

Bishop’s Cleeve The word cleeve is generally thought to relate to the way a valley is formed, so it’s a … More

Hucclecote One of those parkas your dad or granddad used to own in the seventies that you never bothered to … More

I’ve taken up swimming. I loathe swimming but it’s like hitting your head with a hammer, it feels good when … More

So you might have expected a couple of Siberian Border guards but the weather today has been so good that … More

As anyone can see from my “Mr Grumpy” profile picture, I like a grumble. Here’s today’s.In the days when the … More

The next few blogs were inspired, if that’s the right word, by my evening with the Montpellier Writers Group. The … More