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simonwhaley 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.
“Uncle Simon, why is there a goat on top of that castle wall?” My nephew stares at the white adult goat fifteen feet above us. A series of frantic bleats fill the air and, suddenly, three sure-footed kids join their parent on the narrow, stony ridge. “And how did they get up there?”
(Turn the volume up!) Walking into Carding Mill Valley this morning, birdsong filled the air, along with the gentle flowing waters of the stream in the valley bottom. Despite the …
A frosty night, which means every single blade of grass has been blast-chilled with a white frosty coat, which crunches as I compress it underfoot.
There are 200 steps to the top of St Laurence’s Church tower, in Ludlow. But the view from the top is worth it.
There was a strange cloud stretching all the way from the edge of Ragleth Hill, across Ape Dale and Corve Dale to Brown Clee Hill. It was as if the …
Although it was a little breezy through the woods this morning, I couldn’t help but notice how all the leaves on this tree all leant to the right, as if …