'Twas the week before christmas....and all things bright and beautiful, shone with festive cheer, bringing blessings of comfort and joy, in the bleak mid-winter! Today we have been wallowing in the delights of the season - soaking up some most welcome festive spirit in the gloriously ancient yet vibratingly vivid city of Winchester. Nestled at …
Under Scillonian Skies
These days, the month of October always reminds me of one place. The Isles of Scilly was the destination for a three week volunteer work placement I took part in a few years ago, and I have been longing to return ever since. Before I made that trip in the autumn of 2014, everyone I …
Summer Adventure – Wild Rose Country
Alberta, Canada Canada. It seemed a world away. Amp had been several times of course since his parents emigrated in 2008, but I hadn't travelled further than a school trip across the channel to France, in my entire 25years! Many people found this lack of tourism hard to comprehend, their holiday memories being filled with …
SFN Journal – Autumn Almanac: Return to Autumn
I popped to my Mums house, to exchange a couple of bits of shopping we'd picked up for each other. It is just a 5 minute walk around the corner, but I found myself amazed by the complete image of early autumn offered to me by the remnant hedgerows and woodland edges that soften my …
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