I am writing on route to Oxfordshire’s Windrush Valley on a glorious sunny June day. Here, with the children helping us, David and I will be putting together a short trail for guests to enjoy. There is an air of expectation. Driving through Wiltshire’s countryside the landscapes whizzing past the glass windows are bursting with […]
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This photograph was taken last weekend in wild bluebell woods in Wiltshire. It was one of those magical and memorable evenings. Memorable because of the atmosphere and the light. There were frequent bursts of the sort of bright piercing sunlight that appears like a surprise from behind the clouds and delights you each time, lighting
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Our fabulous new rural walking holiday for spring 2013, A Bluebell Trail, has certainly been hitting the headlines recently! A week or so ago, the travel editor of the Mail on Sunday recommended the new break to readers, and yesterday the Guardian included it in their top ten breaks to enjoy in the UK. If
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I was out walking in the woods at the weekend when I heard a really awful shrill cry. Thinking it may have been an injured bird I went to walk on. The next set of screams I heard can only be described as blood curdling. I thought it was a dog, injured and in pain
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Last Sunday arrived clear and bright.The sun was out. The day just had the sense of promise about it. Certainly one of the best days we’ve had for a while. I was back in South Wiltshire’s Chalke valley with David to walk with Nigel and Nicki (Foot Trails Trail guides). Even as we drove along
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How wonderful it is to see the Snowdrops. They carry such a sense of hope in their tiny flowers. And in church yards, hedgerows and English gardens up and down the land, Snowdrops are blooming. They are such a delicate and fragile looking flower which signify the time of year beautifully. Winter is never keen
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Whilst the rest of the UK was amok with the white stuff earlier this week, Bath, Wiltshire and our local area of the South West stayed bright, sunny and snow free. Then this morning, after countless different coloured weather warnings from the Met office our small village in Wiltshire woke to a blanket of snow
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It feels like 2013 has already treated us to some gorgeous weather. Indeed we enjoyed a spectacular New Year’s day of blue skies and bright sunshine, which was the perfect start to the year! We spent much of the day in the fresh air of the countryside exploring woodland surrounding a small village in Wiltshire.
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David and I spent last weekend walking with some lovely guests on our Autumn Splendour in the Cotswolds trail. Saturday produced the perfect autumn day, vivid blue skies and the countryside full of bright colours – oranges, reds, various greens and golds. There were some magnificent scenes with silhouetted tree trunks bursting upwards and lit
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