Tag: Devon

  • Haldon Pet Cemetery: a re-visit 9th February 2022

    Haldon Pet Cemetery: a re-visit 9th February 2022

    A couple of weeks ago I realised someone had sent me a query on Messenger that I hadn’t noticed – because I don’t really use it, and have notifications turned off. It asked if I’d been recently to the site of the pet cemetery at the Haldon Hills, and if so whether it was still…

  • New Boots & Winter Light

    New Boots & Winter Light

    I have some new Muck Boots! (Arctic Sport, in case you’re interested!) Of course I’m not likely to reach the Arctic, and I’m not at all sporty, but I have coveted these so-much-more-than-a welly-wellies for a long time, and last winter (and most of this year) they haven’t been available. They are impressive, and there…

  • Autumn 2021, Dunsford Wood

    Autumn 2021, Dunsford Wood

    The pandemic lockdown and our house move in November last year (with all that entails) prevented me from visiting Dunsford Wood for a couple of years – probably the longest I’ve stayed away. But now, happily, it’s only a 20 minute drive from our house, so I’ll be walking its paths much more often. I’m…

  • Two Green Lanes near the Haldon Hills (Part 2)

    Two Green Lanes near the Haldon Hills (Part 2)

    In the month since I published the first half of this blog piece we have lived for a while in a holiday flat in Teignmouth, completed our house purchase a week earlier than expected, spent several days and many car trips moving things we’d stored in the flat to our new home, taken delivery of…

  • Two Green Lanes near the Haldon Hills (Part 1)

    Two Green Lanes near the Haldon Hills (Part 1)

    In April 2020, during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, I posted a black and white photograph of Holloway Lane (South Devon) on Twitter that I’d taken in autumn 2019, and it proved a popular one. I hadn’t had the time to really explore the lane or the area, and had been looking forward…

  • Lidwell Chapel, Summer 2018

    Lidwell Chapel, Summer 2018

    I haven’t posted anything on here for far too long. (And I seem to write that quite often.) The rain is falling heavily outside as I write in August 2019, and it seems a good time to look back on last summer, when I made several visits to Lidwell Chapel, near Little Haldon, South Devon.…