Postcards from Brighton
Brighton
21 · IX · 2026
Brighton
21st September 2026
Postcards from the Brighton Conference
So quiet
An early start on Sunday
The Premier League Trophy
Chill
Chiller
Wind power
On the front
The Thing
View from The Thing
Having myself a time
I'd previously avoided Conference like the plague
Not quite the bare necessities
Sculthorpe
5 · IX · 2026
The Meadows Farm Shop
5th September 2026
Strawberries, highland cattle greetings cards, an emergency galvanised bucket for sunflowers. Find them here.
The Poppy Line at Weybourne
Weybourne
31 · VIII · 2026
Weybourne
31st August 2026
We'd been hearing about the little train that runs from Holt to Sheringham for a while, and today was a chance to hop on board. The railway has been celebrating a Festival of Rails programme of summer events this week,
Thornham
THORNHAM
27 · VIII · 2026
Thornham
27th August 2026
Thornham has become one of my very favourite Norfolk places and I visit whenever I can. It needs a dedicated post for the light, the air, the usual wonderfully bleak isolation that pulls me back summer, or winter. So here is a
A little trip to Sheringham
SHERINGHAM
23 · VIII · 2026
Sheringham
23rd August 2026
A little trip to Sheringham
Everyone had told us that we should go to Sheringham. It has a little train, apparently, but we didn't go on that. A walk for Fergus in Pretty Corner Woods, which apparently include the highest
A walk in Stiffkey
STIFFKEY
23 · III · 2025
Stiffkey
23rd March 2025
A walk in Stiffkey
What a beautiful, warm weekend it was in North Norfolk recently when we took a little trip to Stiffkey. Different people tell me that it's pronounced Sookey or Stookey but I'm not sure about
The Canadian
There's something romantic and epic about long train journeys. I have travelled for days across India and China by train, where your carriage becomes a village with all its assorted characters and their comings and goings. (The reality is not as romantic, of course). Sadly, I think I&
Montreal
My son James chose to go to university in Montreal, and was eventually offered training for a job and accommodation there by the father of his girlfriend. In October 2021, in Covid times, on my way back to hermetic Hong Kong from London I had to spend three "washout&