BOLTON. A Quick Half On The Market.

As you might already know I have a liking for proper Markets, the ones where you feel like actually buying something instead of walking around just looking.

As you might already know I have a liking for proper Markets, the ones where you feel like actually buying something instead of walking around just looking.

Winter officially starts tomorrow, the 21st the shortest day but that cold gentleman put in and early appearance yesterday as I had a walk around Lytham and St. Anne’s. This is the time of the year when I like to grab whatever chance of daylight happens to be passing, even when like this day there wasn’t a whole lot of it about as a thick fog settled in and showed […]

I am writing this by the fading light of the day and the flickering volts of my mobile’s battery as not for the first time I have bounced out of the house without the charging cable. I’ve come to Shrewsbury as a last trip before the steamroller that is Christmas arrives and flattens everything before it. Anyway regular readers ( thank you if you are and hello if you are […]

One of the many delights of the Edinburgh Festival is walking down the Royal Mile past the preview stages and taking in the bite sized samples of the shows on offer. Music, drama, magic or just plain odd, they are all their for your enjoyment.

I’ve a couple of routes to chose from on my wanderings across the Wirral, the thumb like area that faces Liverpool on the one side and North Wales on the other.

For many years I would holiday in Scotland, basing myself in Dunkeld, Perthshire. It’s a beautiful area in it’s own right but with the added attraction of really good travel connections by either road or rail to other parts of the country.