The Walking Blog
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Grand Union
Some pictures from a wintry walk along the Grand Union Canal in Milton Keynes. No snow on the ground but quite cold enough for the surface of this shallow waterway to be frozen.
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Making plans
We’re in the midst of terrible winter blues here. Short days, freezing weather, perpetual rain and gloom – this really is the climate of the British Isles at its worst and we could well have to wait two months for it to break and signs of spring to appear. It hardly bothers to get light…
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Flying west to Exmoor for the winter
Thoroughly fed up with the snow, the cold and the grey skies in the east of England, we fled west. A four-day break on Exmoor has given us an abundance of clear blue skies, mild weather and sunshine before we had to return home to the cold and damp and the refrozen slush on the…
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Stargazing
People who are interested in astronomy and the night sky are in for a treat in the next day or two as the Geminid meteor shower passes overhead on December 13-14.
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Geocaching catching on again
Geocaching is catching on again around here. It’s an activity we have a love-hate relationship with – sometimes we want to do nothing but, sometimes it drives us mad, sometimes we desperately want to avoid it and all who sail in it.
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Out and about in Fenland
Yesterday we visited a corner of the country that’s not often been on our itinerary – Fenland. The reason: to take a look at one of Britain’s most unusual hillforts, Stonea Camp.
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Coppicing
Time for the second of this winter’s conservation activities in our neck of the woods. A particularly appropriate phrase, that last one, since today we will be coppicing some hazel growing in a corner of a local nature reserve.
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Down the park with the Countryside Service
With autumn well and truly under way, and winter on the horizon, it’s time for conservation volunteering to pick up where it left off last spring. In our neck of the woods this means the arrival of emails from the county council’s Countryside Service listing monthly opportunities to get out into the local great outdoors,…