Any of you who watched Gentleman Jack on the BBC earlier in the year will already know Shibden Hall, Anne Listers’ ancestral home near Halifax where much of the series was filmed. (Very fine formal garden they have there too, for those of you who are interested…) I went to visit it a few weeks ago …
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The last couple of weeks has seen me in Yorkshire, in Aberdeen and in Dorset… I started my journey at Hebden Bridge, staying with my good friend the food journalist and writer Geoff Tansey. Geoff’s house all but over looks the river Calder which runs through – and sometimes indeed floods – the town. Here were …
Lovely people in the Cotswolds…
A few weeks ago I took myself to Longborough Opera Festival, in the heart of the Costwolds. Perched on the top of a hill overlooking a rolling green valley sits ‘the big house’ – neo classical terra cotta and creamy Cotswold stone. Across a generous courtyard and behind some trees nestles a dinner tent and …
Whitstable beach
Apart from admiring the beauties of Sarah’s finely turned sods when I visited her last week, we also took a walk (with Harold obviously) along Whitstable Beach. It looked so very English and wintry I feel I needed to share… And if you look on the right in the next image you will see what …
Christmas ramblings….
Well, where else could we start but with Boris in his Christmas hat…. To be strictly honest, these are not Christmas but post Christmas Dorset/Wiltshire ramblings, kicking off with most amazing 14th century barn – the longest thatched barn in England according to Wikipedia, now restored to glory and and turned into an art gallery. This …
Walking with the waves
Before I went down to Dublin for the Irish awards presentation last week I spent a couple of days out on the west coast with my cousin who lives in the far west of County Leitrim. Leitrim has probably the lowest population of any county in Ireland and does spend much of the year shrouded …