A Miscellany from Deepest Kent

I was recently challenged to pick ten of my favourite books via Facebook. As always, this seemed a good opportunity to do a blog, and I'...

My first cycling trip away this year took place in June, when I decided to explore the disused railway lines of Norfolk. The £58 price of a ...

A few years ago I wrote a kind of 'Desert Island Discs' for this blog, listing ten of my all time favourite albums. As I was recentl...

Apologies to those who enjoy the cycling narratives, etc. They will return as soon as the weather picks up. For now, I'm continuing wit...

It's been a while since I put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard if you're pedantic about your metaphors) - in Britain in winter t...

I've got another cycling narrative for you, and this time we're off to exotic Northampton. Having undertaken this trip in mid-Septem...

The journey from Kent to the New Forest by train is something of an epic, although remarkably cheap if you travel along the South Coast via ...