Category: UK
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A Loamhole Dingle
Happy Valentine’s weekend! A few years ago, while poring over maps of Shropshire, I got distracted from my research and wrote this silly (romantic?) ditty instead. How many Shropshire place names can you find in it? A Loamhole DingleMarie Kreft Knockin on her door one knightonHe said, “My dear sweet…
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Herefordshire with a babe in arms
Me, my husband and our baby on a self-catering week in Aylton, near Ledbury. It wasn’t the most ambitious of holidays. One of the leaflets in our rented cottage was for the Birmingham Botanical Gardens … less than five miles from our house. Steve and I joked about popping home…
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The rocks have eyes
There are still a couple of weeks left of the seal-watching season at Blakeney in north Norfolk. I took a trip out with Bishop’s Boats in early September, accompanied by my husband, mum and two dozen other tourists armed with cameras and cardigans. We ploughed through the chilled grey North…
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Some weekends are enchanted: Norfolk
This is my mum Trish and me, with wind and spray in our hair at shingly Salthouse on the Norfolk coast. Sliding over the pebble banks to dip our toes in the waves, nudged forward by the North Sea wind, I felt like a two-pence piece in an arcade coin…
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