The Sincerest For Of Poetry
Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
The Last Will Of Sven Andersen
Booms And Busts
Buster & Moo
Salisbury Square
My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
Life, in a Grain of Sand
Life In A Flash
Category Archives: suffolk
December #poem #walking
We walked, Dog and me, through Dunwich Forest and Westleton Heath This poem sort of drifted into my head and fitted both my mood and the scenery December Wherever we place our faith, in God or nature or another’s … Continue reading
Life’s a Beach #glorioussuffolk
We wanted a place to let Dog do his doggy stuff and headed for a small hamlet called Covehithe. It has some eponymous cliffs and a stretch of lovely sand so, well, why not. First there’s the ruined church of … Continue reading
Posted in dogs, miscellany, suffolk, walking
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Plus ca change…
Change can be good or it can be frightening. Change can be stimulating or depressing. Sometimes we expect to find changes and are surprised, pleasantly or otherwise, when we don’t. I went for a walk this last weekend. Five years … Continue reading
Bulcamp to Halesworth and back again – a Suffolk walk
We are fortunate to have a place in Suffolk, outside Blythburgh. It’s called a cottage but it is more a town house; it is part of a development that once was a workhouse set in the middle of the countryside … Continue reading
O is for Orford Ness – so weird but so wonderful
I originally posted on this extraordinary place a while ago and the A to Z challenge seems to be an apposite place to repost it. Is that another cheat? Whatever! Orford Ness is tenuously attached to the Suffolk coast, and … Continue reading
Posted in A to Z blogging challenge, miscellany, suffolk, writing
Tagged A to Z blogging challenge, Avocet, Cobra Mist, Cold War, Military, Orford Ness, RSPB, Soviet Union, WW1, WW2
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We’re walking in the air – You never walk alone, part three
Oh, it was GLORIOUS! After some discussion and because of timings and logistics, we decided that for the third and final leg of the Suffolk 60 we would travel south-north, back from the end to Chillesford. You see, the Suffolk Coastal … Continue reading
Posted in miscellany, natural history, suffolk, writing
Tagged Bawdsey, Butley, Chillesford, Felixstowe, Ordfordness, Shingle Street, Suffolk, Suffolk 60, Suffolk Coastal Path
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Wet wet wet – you’ll never walk alone, part two
Oh yes, did it rain. Take the contrast between this: And this: Needless to say the Lawyer and I only had the Dog for company. Poor mite was shivering by the time we reached Thorpeness, but we treated him to … Continue reading
Posted in miscellany, natural history, suffolk, walking
Tagged Aldeburgh, Chillesford, Dunwich, Maltings, Rendlesham forest, River Alde, Sizewell, Snape, Suffolk 60, Suffolk Coastal Path, Thorpeness, Tunstall forest
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You’ll never walk alone… part one
Walk on, through the wind Walk on, through the rain Though your dreams be tossed and blown Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart And you’ll never walk alone You’ll never walk alone So sung Gerry and the … Continue reading
Posted in miscellany, natural history, suffolk, walking
Tagged Dunwich, Kessingland, Lowestoft, Reydon, Southwold, Walberswick
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