Ripening Fruit

The hedgerows are beginning to bear fruit. It won’t be many more weeks until these are ready for picking!

Windy Crop

I was out for a wander this morning, and the Shropshire Way went right through this arable field. The wind was lovely in this heat, and it sent the crop …

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Wonderful Wisps

It’s going to be another glorious day weather-wise today, so I did my walk early, and the clouds were wonderfully wispy first thing.

Moon Flight

I took this video of the moon hovering above Titterstone Clee Hill, as I panned along the eastern view from Ragleth Hill. It’s a wonderful summer evening sky. I love …

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Sheep Shade

These sheep know it’s going to be another warm one today. It says something when it’s too hot to chew grass!

Blue Sky

The mini-heatwave continues … clear blue skies over Shropshire at 8am this morning. Spot the fly, briefly at the start, and the white speck of the plane: evidence that our …

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BoW – Social Engagement

Check out the August issue of Writing Magazine for my latest article about social media, and how writers might want to consider using it.

Chirk & the Llangollen Canal

The August issue of Country Walking magazine has a route around Chirk and the Llangollen canal. This one is for the international wanderer who likes crisscrossing the border between two …

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Hazy Hills

We have a mini-heatwave settling in. It’s 8.30am and Brown Clee hill, in the distance, is struggling to make itself seen in the heat haze. And it’s only going to …

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Shadow Skimming

Much warmer today, with bigger breaks in the clouds, although some clouds are still casing shadows across the landscape as they drift across the sky.