At 8:45am, my roommate for the trip Kate was watching a celebrity gymnastics show from ITV on her iPod thingy while in the room and by 9:35am, I was having a frozen lemonade in Starbucks, Kate was having a bagel and saying I was worryingly thin, and then we set off again. She went into … Continue reading Tuesday 26th August 2014 –day 4 of Trek America – in Chicago

I got on at 4.45pm – just after my camel poo-ed – and got a bit scared when it got up really really suddenly, the man helping us on was wearing a long blue robe, the smell of poo was stunning, some people on quadbikes whizzed past, lots of grunting went on from the camels, … Continue reading A camel ride in Morocco – Monday 20th March 2017

This bear – who has a permanent place on my dressing table – gives me regular flashbacks to my interesting 18 day group trip on the Transmongolian Railway (where he - now named Fredeck - was sold to me). I had a look back through my notes recently, and this is an excerpt of day … Continue reading A bit of the Transmongolian Railway

This morning, the Teashops and Taverns book was on the table at breakfast time, and a walk was suggested for today, my mother made strange noises after her porridge, I chopped up an old sock in an experimental attempt to make insoles for a pair of slippers (which didn’t really work), Poppy the currently broody … Continue reading Another little countryside outing…

This was day 3 of this little expedition (and these things never quite go to plan in our household) - When I woke up in this little hotel sort of place today at about 6.15am, I was traumatised by being whacked over the head with a pillow while I remained in bed; when I moved, … Continue reading A quick exerpt of a Welsh road trip…

Today, the human breakfast was eaten, our cat was snoring on my bed with a paw round his nose, and after drying up a few kitchen utensils – the task of poppadom making (that had been on my list to try for a while) began, and I was following WikiHow instructions on my phone. Attempting … Continue reading An attempt at poppadoms…

It was 12.37pm (and 17°c) when we left (with 23032 on the cars milometer) on 8th May – and activity was beginning on the local bowling green. The fields around Hill and Leek Wooton were incredibly green, a place was spotted with alpacas – so we stopped, and the brown and the white alpacas there … Continue reading A countryside outing…

It’s fascinating what you sometimes spot on the shelves – this was a recent shopping trip….After being tasked (and succeeding) with repotting some plants and gouging seeds out of 2 2ft long dudis (which involved some enthusiastic sawing) during my regular Wednesday morning volunteering at Garden Organic, some shopping was done – at the local … Continue reading A bit of shopping:

When the car moved from the B&B in Salisbury at 9.07am – I saw a big banner for a model railway exhibition, then out in the countryside there were lots and lots of massive yellow fields of rapeseed, some horses being led across a green one, and at 9.25am we reached Stonehenge. It felt freezing … Continue reading A recent visit to Stonehenge…

When we left the house, a man was cycling along the road with a large ornamental plate in his bike basket, 2 really big grey dogs were being walked, and a smashed beer bottle, a squashed yoghurt pot, the empty packet of an antimicrobial wipe, a cigarette packet, and a very old felt tip pen … Continue reading A local litter picking outing this week: