It’s happened again – the powers that be seem intent on salami-slicing our estate into so many long thin strips. Thirty years ago the A42 was built to the east of the Nottingham – Birmingham road and trapped a long sliver of our farm and woodland in...
Those of you familiar with our gentle valley will know that there are two main lakes, linked by a smaller pond just below the Golden Gate bridge. The lowest of these, the SerpentineLake covers nine acres and winds off northwards out of sight towards Melbourne. This...
November, a notable month of endings and beginnings. Yesterday saw the end of work on the TopLake for this year; thousands of tonnes of silt have been pumped upstream to dry out when the weather allows. As to beginnings, on the eighth of the month arrived Phoebe...
In a handout I wrote recently describing the new footpath, Harpurs Crossing, I mentioned the ‘Thringstone Fault’, where the Leicestershire coalfield ends in a dramatic upward arc. It set me thinking of a time when my father and I were in the mining...
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