Two have a Scottish road trip

21 Oct 2022

To celebrate our Silver Wedding anniversary we chose a road trip around south western Scotland, starting in Dumfries & Galloway and working our way gradually north to end up in…

Rainbow Snippets: Night Music

30 Jul 2022

Yesterday's webring blog post was about the influence of music on our writing, and I realised after I'd posted it that I'd completely forgotten to include the short story I…

Canals, basins, docks – and a fish on a bicycle

4 Dec 2021

Last week we spent a few days in London, on our first holiday in over two years. We were only there for two and a half days but managed to…

A lucky find

11 Nov 202119 Nov 2021

You know how it is. You move house, and you unpack all the good and/or essential stuff. But there are always a few (or a lot of) boxes left over,…

Lockdown blues…

18 May 2021

Thanks to my good friend Jay Mountney for this meme, which I've cheerfully stolen from her blog. Thankfully, the lockdown blues are just starting to ease as we're all allowed…

Happy Christmas… if possible!

24 Dec 2020

I hope everyone has as good a Christmas as they possibly can in difficult circumstances, particularly after such a rotten year. And here's hoping for much better things, and a…

Layers of history at Dartmouth Castle

6 Jun 20196 Jun 2019

The castle at Dartmouth is situated at the mouth of the River Dart, a short walk out of the town centre. It's a great place to put a castle, looking…

A house fit for murder?!

10 May 2019

Not really, of course. I'm talking about Greenway House in Devon, which was the summer home of 'queen' of crime writing Agatha Christie and where she wrote some of her…

Castles, gardens and river boats…

17 Apr 201917 Apr 2019

Last week we spent a few days away in the south Devon town of Dartmouth, for our first holiday for over a year. We last stayed in the town nearly…

Why the devil helped to build a church

24 Aug 201724 Aug 2017

I was going through some old holiday photos the other day and came across this cheeky little fellow: I posted him on my Instagram account, but couldn't remember much about…