Standing on this high point of the Cotswold Way I can hear the voices of William Shakespeare and William Tyndale. These two men have influenced the English language more than any others.
Continue reading “Is this Shakespeare Country?”
The Cotswold villages have a unique charm with their attractive honey-coloured limestone cottages, clustered together around fine churches. They make for an ever-popular tourist destination and a photographer’s dream.
Continue reading “Up There on the Cotswolds”
In the face of growing global warming and climate change, how can we avoid being part of the Mad Hatter’s tea party, where it’s always tea-time but never time to do the washing up?
Continue reading “Small is still Beautiful”
Scenes like this are becoming increasingly rare in the UK. What’s happening to our traditional winters such as that captured in John Clare’s heart-warming ‘January’ poem from his ‘Shepherd’s Calendar’?
Continue reading “What's Happening to Winter?”
Christmas reminds us of the tragedy of being homeless, a refugee, one of the ‘left outside people’ and the ‘unloved’. We all need ‘home’ where we can be loved. It’s lonely and cold outside.
Continue reading “Pursued by Love”
Is traditional English country life vanishing today? We like to think some of the spirit of Old England still survives in our own village here.
Continue reading “An English Village in Winter”
A dream of glory is captured in this photographer’s ‘golden hour’ moment early on a November day. But it won’t last. Or will it?
Continue reading “The Glory and the Dream”