Category: Weekly Update

Thanks to a couple of detours, one planned, one not-so-much, our weekend walk ended up nearly 9 miles long. We walked from Brockenhurst out to the former WWII airfield on Beaulieu Heath. We met loads of pony friends, including a foal with an adorably velvet…

I have been so tired lately. I’ve been going to bed early with the intention of reading, and just falling asleep on top of the book. So only one review posted last week; Afterlove by Tanya Byrne. I did finish reading the longest book on…

I’ve had a weirdly busy week even by my pre-pandemic standards. Went out for a meal, had a work barbeque and braved Christchurch food festival, plus a long walk near Fordingbridge on Sunday. So with all that being out of the house, I didn’t write…

This weekend’s walk at Lepe had an added element of danger as we raced against high tide. We did have an hour to spare but our path led me to climb over trees to avoid paddling (Josh showed off his superior footwear by just walking…

I met an adorable alpaca friend at the weekend. The owners had put a poem on the gate to ask not to feed them rather than the usual angry looking signs (which are fair enough, someone fed a pony a roast dinner a few months…

I sort of spent most of the week playing Banished, so not a huge amount of bookish updates this week. I did post a review of This Poison Heart and made some progress writing draft reviews. It’s hard to believe I used to review every…

Some people just haven’t got the hang of British summer holidays yet. We went down to Hengistbury Head and walked into Boscombe at the weekend, and huge swathes of beach were just deserted. Granted, there was an ominous cloud on the horizon but we didn’t…

While the heatwave may have technically broken, we’ve still had hot weather after our Friday night thunderstorms. They were so loud, but fortunately caused nothing worse than a bad night’s sleep. Our hot weather is not nearly as bad as other countries have been seeing….

You know how I was moaning about the weather last week, well I have only gone and summoned summer by buying a hedgehog boot scraper. Though the mud in the woods hasn’t totally dried up yet, so it may get some use. I feel like…