Another nice Sunday stroll

20 Sep 2022

Off to Ambleside this week, for a walk through countryside that's just tinged with the first autumn colour, even on a damp misty morning with the clouds looming over the…

Monday Mystery temple

6 Sep 202119 Nov 2021

It's been a while since I had a Monday Mystery feature on here, but this one is, if I do say so myself, a bit of a doozy! All you…

The strange case of the missing priest hole

24 Sep 2020

This is something I forgot to mention when I blogged about Levens Hall yesterday. I visited the house several times with my parents as a child or young teenager, and…

Monday mystery: what is this building?

4 Mar 20195 Mar 2019

When we visited Grange-over-Sands the other week I was intrigued by one particular building. This was a fairly substantial stone-built barn or workshop, on a corner of Hampsfell Road just…

‘The Whaleboat House’ by Mark Mills

2 Nov 2008

I read Mills' 'The Savage Garden' last year and thoroughly enjoyed it (a garden *and* a mystery - what's not to like *g*) so when I saw another title by…