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Hollywood came to Shrewsbury in 1984, to film an adaptation of Dickens’Â A Christmas Carol. My article in the December 2016 issue of Best of British magazine takes a tour of the exterior film locations, including St Chad’s Church where it’s possible to find a real gravestone for Ebeneezer Scrooge. Don’t believe me? Well, check this out:
It’s huge! It’s like a mini forest of its own, perched on the remains from a larger forest. Unlike the woods around me, this forest still has a canopy, although …
The weather yesterday was horrendous, resulting in a lot of flooding across Shropshire today. People said I was mad to go out on my daily walk, but I think Shefali …
It’s a tad wet today. It’s not a storm, just a very slow moving low dumping an awful lot of water. The best bit about walks like this? Getting back …
Not much, but a definite dusting on the Long Mynd overnight.
I don’t know about a mindful moment, but I had a frustrating half an hour this morning, as I tried desperately to defrost the car. There was a thick layer …
No snow … well, not that you’d notice if you didn’t peer round into the batches and hollows of the Mynd where there are a couple of dusty patches of …
Looking east, the weather is amazing this morning, but it’s not forecast to stay like this for long. (Indeed, within the hour it was overcast and pouring with rain.) It’s …