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Sri Lanka – Sleep and Sea

It is crazy that we travel 5000 miles to sleep, but we do.  Far away from the phone and family, pets and guests, routine and duty we sleep. Lulled by the sea, by the trains, by the palms, by the horns of the buses that…
  • Sri Lanka – Sleep and Sea
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The sense of Vietnam

  Vietnam smells like Fish guts in the sun Watermelon smoothies Smoke from a hundred improvised BBQ’s outside six seat restaurants, rallied by vigorous flapping of palm fans Red mud drying in the dope heavy air Condensed milk Sea salt and peppercorns And around and…
  • The sense of Vietnam
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Blessed by the sun – this year so far in Pembrokeshire

When, spurred by guilt, I started to compile these photos the sun was blazing on Pembrokeshire. It was the warmest day since the dry grass smelling, dusty laned days of 1976 (I remember it well, those days when I was tanned to a single whole…
  • Blessed by the sun – this year so far in Pembrokeshire

Legends in the land – Drovers’ roads and forgotten woodland

These frosty November mornings are wonderful, the dogs are excited by the spring step cold crunch of the grass and our woods are full of ice cauled leaves that chime as they fall. On the old drovers’ road beside the house the leaf litter is…
  • Legends in the land – Drovers’ roads and forgotten woodland
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Christmas about to come – the best of Pembrokeshire in the run up to Christmas 2016

There are ghosts in all we do at Christmas; memories of memories tied up in red ribbon and smelling of cinnamon and oranges. I love that here in Pembrokeshire the rolly polly ghost of Christmas past is still around, laughing his great rolling laugh, and…
  • Christmas about to come – the best of Pembrokeshire in the run up to Christmas 2016
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Plumstone sunrise – Winter walks in Pembrokeshire

There is a supermoon aching in the sky, it makes the nights restless and full of strange dreams. As an antidote to the weird, and it has been a weird few weeks, we get up and get out early into the fresh Pembrokeshire air. The…
  • Plumstone sunrise – Winter walks in Pembrokeshire
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What are you doing for Christmas? Festive season breaks in Pembrokeshire

I was going to call this an Adults Christmas in Wales as a bit of a riff on Dylan Thomas’ much loved work (I read it every year) but that sounded a bit iffy in this entendre rich world so instead I’ll just ask, what…
  • What are you doing for Christmas? Festive season breaks in Pembrokeshire
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Strumble Head Summer – Pembrokeshire in July

Strumble Head was quiet when we dropped a picnic over to our latest guests on Saturday afternoon. In the glorious sunshine a few photographers quietly worked their way around the view whilst a trickle of hikers arrived off the Abermawr to Strumble section of the…
  • Strumble Head Summer – Pembrokeshire in July
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The House is Too Big without You – Going back to B&B in Pembrokeshire

This is a big house in a beautiful country. Too big for just the two of us. Time to open the doors to B&B guests again. We remember how much fun it was last time. My daughter was mocking me the other day as I…
  • The House is Too Big without You – Going back to B&B in Pembrokeshire
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Turkey and Greece – as I remember them

It is two years since we left Turkey and there are days when the memories rise up thick and fast and I yearn to go back and do it all again. We were so lucky to live there at the time we did. It gifted…
  • Turkey and Greece – as I remember them
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National Pet Month – An update on our International Animals

As it is National Pet Month I thought I would give an update on our animals. We have been back in Pembrokeshire for just over two years and our Turkish dogs are now Welsh dogs, thicker of coat and used to the doggy free for…
  • National Pet Month – An update on our International Animals
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Southern Yucatan Trip Report

This is the southern Yucatan, a land where the roads run out after running straight for hundreds of kilometres. Where the vanishing point you drive into can mesmerise you and the emptiness feels post-apocalyptic.
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  • Southern Yucatan Trip Report
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The Confetti Days of May

Pembrokeshire in May is like standing at the kissing gate of a country church celebrating an old fashioned wedding. The air is full of flying blossom like confetti and the shades of pink and white from the hawthorn, the cherry and the apple whirl joyously…
  • The Confetti Days of May
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An Investment of Bulbs

I have an obsession with collective nouns; murmurations of starlings, murders of crows etc and I think if ever there was a collective noun to apply to bulbs it should be an investment of bulbs, or perhaps in my case, a surprise of bulbs. Bulbs…
  • An Investment of Bulbs
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The promises I kept, the promises I broke [to myself]

Moving between countries is a big deal, we do it with excitement, fear, and hope and we make promises to ourselves about how our lives will change – if we didn’t we wouldn’t do it, what would be the point? It’s now just over a…
  • The promises I kept, the promises I broke [to myself]
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