Tag: Cotswolds

Walking with the Colonel: the d’Arcy Dalton Way

The evening sun was yawing down the Ridgeway as we approached Wayland’s Smithy. It was the shortest day of the year and we’d walked 66 miles to be here.

Two trees

Here’s a poem for you. Only I haven’t written it yet.

Pond life

Despite last autumn’s constant rain, this is a water-deprived area.

A Cotswolds vantage

Old Walterbush Farm lies at the highest point of my walk. At 750 feet above sea level it’s where the rolling waves of the Cotswold landscape finally crest before flowing out eastwards

Still winter

The view from my window is an English view. Green, even in mid-winter, as the morning frost fades.