Category Archives: Out and about

It was the retirement service for the local vicar today, spending twelve years in the parishes, she has been someone who understood the words community and service, someone who had become much loved for her gentle loving kindness, particularly her … Continue reading →

Walking along the waterfront in Liverpool on a fine summer’s evening, I came to the Tate Gallery. At half past seven on a Monday evening, it was closed, but sight of it recalled a previous visit. Back in 2015, I … Continue reading →

‘Go to Shapwick Nature Reserve. You can walk the bronze age track’. The Reserve last month became only the second National Nature Reserve in the country, a place of tranquility away from traffic and development. We easily found not only … Continue reading →

Tracing the story of a Great War soldier from his birth in Ruthin in North Wales in 1895,  through the ugly hell of the Western Front, I came upon a moment of beauty, In December 1918, he had been married … Continue reading →

My friend thinks Glastonbury is a magical place, she is not alone in her opinion. The walls of a circular room at the county museum in Taunton are inscribed with comments on Somerset and its people. Quotes from famous writers … Continue reading →