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simonwhaley WARNING: Turn down your volume settings. We had forecast of snow, but I didn’t think it would be quite SO windy! This is what March sounds like coming in like …
A lot of grey sky today … but then, suddenly, the clouds parted to give a brief bit of blueness.
Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to High Tove we go … Well, not if you read Wainwright’s books. He didn’t like the place. But I think he just picked the wrong day! To see if you agree, watch the video below of the 360 degree view …
Hop to it, and if you’re quick you can buy a copy of the Spring 2016 issue of Country Walking magazine, which contains my borderland wander that passes Hopton Castle. …
No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t seem to capture this on video. Every so often the breeze rustled through these beech leaves on this hedge. If you turn …
With an extra 24 hours this month, Simon Whaley chats to three productive writers about making the most of our writing time.
When you’re an employee you get paid at the end of the month. Unfortunately, most employees get paid the same amount of money whether there are 28 days in February, or 29. For self-employed people, things are a little different. A leap year gives us a whole extra day in which to write something and, hopefully, earn more money. But it doesn’t matter whether you write full time, or in your spare time, this February we have all been allocated an extra 24 hours. So how are you going to make the most of yours?
I called this Curious Clouds, but the more I’ve thought about it the more I realised this is more of a cloud sandwich. The contrast between the narrow band …
Squint hard enough and you can just about make out it’s a Red Kite. We don’t often get them soaring in the skies on this side of the main road. …
A solitary car climbs The Burway – the single track road that rises from the town centre, onto the high, heather moorland of the Long Mynd. As I watch it …
“We need more kangaroos,” the manageress said to her assistant as I stepped into the shop. Puzzled why a card shop in Ludlow would have any need for Antipodean animals, I paid for my postcard and left. I’d read the Mortimer Trail was a good walk for wildlife, but I didn’t think it included large marsupials.