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• Landlust Magazine

  

  I owe many thanks to the team from The Organic Agency, who e-mailed me a few weeks ago to alert me, as a blogger, of the imminent arrival of a brand-new magazin... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2015 HOME, HOME IMPROVEMENT

• Brean to Burnham

  

  Saturday 3rd October 2015It’s been a while since we completed this walk – our most recent addition to our route following the (unofficial) Somerset Coast Path... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2015 HOME, HOME IMPROVEMENT

• Great Ormes Head

  

  Monday 19th October 2015By now, we’d consumed our final breakfast in Rhosgoch cottage, had packed up and removed all of our belongings and rationed off the... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2015 HOME, HOME IMPROVEMENT

• Weekend in Waunfawr

  

  Waunfawr (a name I’m still unsure of how to pronounce) is where we set up for the weekend, in a four-bedroom Rhosgoch Cottage that felt far removed from everyda... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2015 HOME, HOME IMPROVEMENT

• Riding the Welsh Highland Railway

  

  Saturday 17th October 2015We left Caernarfon Castle with two options to ensure our return to the cottage: We could phone ‘home’ for a lift. We could take the... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2015 HOME, HOME IMPROVEMENT

• Caernarfon Castle

  

  Saturday 17th October 2015This is the first post in a short series detailing the events a group of us experienced during a weekend in North Wales last month. Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2015 HOME, HOME IMPROVEMENT

• East Somerset Railway Walk

  

  Sunday 1st November 2015On Sunday, I did something I’d not done for almost three months – since my last non-charity-related expedition to the Cotswolds – and... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2015 HOME, HOME IMPROVEMENT

• Sin City 2 / Taken 3

  

  I enjoyed the original Sin City and it’s comic book-style (I don’t think I was aware that it was born in a series of graphic novels, when I first saw it) upon... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2015 HOME, HOME IMPROVEMENT

• A Beautiful Mind / The Hobbit

  

  A Beautiful Mind is a biopic starring Russell Crowe, who portrays the life of John Nash (a man who died tragically in May of this year). Mr. Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2015 HOME, HOME IMPROVEMENT

• A Morning in Bakewell

  

  Tuesday 15th September 2015After my third and final night confined to a tent – the longest stretch that I have so far spent camping alone – it was time to pack... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2015 HOME, HOME IMPROVEMENT

• Lyme Park (Part 2)

  

  Monday 14th September 2015With the house and its private gardens already covered in Part 1, it’s now time for me to recount the adventures I had exploring the... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2015 HOME, HOME IMPROVEMENT

• Lyme Park (Part 1)

  

  Monday 14th September 2015My final full-day in Derbyshire would be the opportunity I would take to go National Trust-ing. This is something I like to to each... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2015 HOME, HOME IMPROVEMENT

• Back From Wales – Again!

  

  Quite late on Monday evening, I arrived back home after a weekend away in North Wales. I’m sorry I wasn’t able to forewarn you of this latest adventure but I... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2015 HOME, HOME IMPROVEMENT

• Hewish to Brean

  

  Sunday 20th September 2015Several weeks have passed since we actually completed this stage in the Somerset Coast Path. At somewhere between fourteen and... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2015 HOME, HOME IMPROVEMENT

• Going Neolithic In’t Derbyshire

  

  Sunday 13th September 2015As if I hadn’t already crammed enough in to my main day of hiking, away in Derbyshire; as the post-summer sun began to dip beyond the... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2015 HOME, HOME IMPROVEMENT

• Ilam Park

  

  Sunday 13th September 2015Soon after finishing my walk that began and ended in Dovedale, I left the car park with an eye on returning to the camp site about... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2015 HOME, HOME IMPROVEMENT

• Five Valleys Walk 2015

  

  Sunday 27th September 2015For each of the previous two years, I’ve taken part in the twenty-mile Circuit of Bath walk on the last Sunday in September. Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2015 HOME, HOME IMPROVEMENT

• Dovedale and Wolfscote Dale (Part 2)

  

  Sunday 13th September 2015With a good half of the walk complete and after a good half-hour of resting for lunch, it looked as though my return route in to... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2015 HOME, HOME IMPROVEMENT

• Dovedale and Wolfscote Dale (Part 1)

  

  Sunday 13th September 2015It’s already been a fortnight since I left North Somerset for a weekend up in the Peak District. I’m not sure exactly where the time... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2015 HOME, HOME IMPROVEMENT

• Finding Solomon’s Temple

  

  Before waving goodbye to Buxton and reluctantly welcoming the prospect of pitching my tent in an anything-but-summer kind of weather; there was one last... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2015 HOME, HOME IMPROVEMENT