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  • Steer Swamp and Gingerbread Hill circuit – Marblehead

    During my last trip home, I was fortunate enough to experience decent weather, and I had just enough time each day to go out for a walk. I revisited many of my old haunts and walking routes, and was pleased to find many of them not hugely altered. Steer Swamp was a popular walk location…

  • Photos on a theme: reflections

    It has been a shockingly long time since I have managed to sit down and focus on a blog post. What can I say? Life got in the way – I’ve been back and forth to the US twice in two months, run a conference at work, and been inundated with life admin that needed…

  • Crystal Cove, California coastal walk

    Is that enough alliteration for you? Work has taken me back to southern California this month, and after a week of travel starting in Pasadena, heading out to Riverside and then finally down to Santa Ana, I was able to settle into one place for the rest of my time here. And so lucky I…

  • Fife Coastal Path: Earlshall Castle to Kinshaldy Riding Stables

    As I have alluded to in my past few posts, January weather has been consistently rubbish. This Saturday really wasn’t much different, except that the rain was more a gentle mist than a downpour. I knew I wasn’t up for a long walk, and I had plenty to do on my last weekend before my…

  • Stormy Skies: capturing dramatic weather in Scotland and beyond

    After a summer of almost unprecedented beauty, day after day of blue sky and warm temperatures, Scotland is getting its karmic retribution in January. We have had steadily wet, grey, cold, windy weather for most of this month. Some days are colder than others, some windier, and some have been icy, but almost all have…

  • Fife Coastal Path: Brief reflection on the year

    Somehow, it is mid-January. It feels like we just got back from our Christmas trip to New England, and I’m deep into planning my next trip to the US, in just about three weeks. At this time of year time can pass quickly, and we have been adjusting to the time change, getting back to…

  • Wandering through my lens: Highlights of 2025

    Last year in December, struggling to think of a post, I decided to pull together and share some of my favourite pictures from the past year; many o them I have not shared before, or have only done briefly in an Instagram story. It struck me that this might be a nice tradition to start.…

  • My top books of 2025

    For the last two years I have been consistent in recommending 10 books each year, but this year I am a touch short, and for several reasons. Firstly, this year I tried to read my way through more of Diana Gabaldon but found it increasingly hard. The length of the books grew and grew, and…

  • One Week in Mexico City

    The business of the season has meant that it has taken me a bit more time than I hoped to pull together all of the pictures I took on my last international adventure, but I have finally managed it! The trip, as the title of this post makes clear, was to Mexico – a new…

  • A visit to Romsey Abbey

    Romsey is a charming, well-to-do town about 7 miles from Southampton Airport, in the south of England. The town centre offers a mix of lovely shops, restaurants and pubs on winding streets and lined with Tudor-style frontages. The River Test flows through the community and some stunning parks, and past a picturesque old mill.

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