After about a fortnight of wind and rain (enough to even wear a coat to work a couple of times) it’s a pleasant surprise when the sun makes a prolonged appearance for the bank holiday weekend. It’s a good job too, since I’ve hired a car and travelled 225km to Somerset.
Cheddar Gorge makes for a [...]

The BBC weather said that storms were coming. That it was going to rain non-stop. That it was pretty much going to be a horrible weekend. So of course it wasn’t the ideal time to travel to the south coast of England…
It therefore came as a nice surprise that the weather was glorious! I spent [...]

Well well… summer time is here already and I haven’t done an update in absolutely ages (nothing to do with the Champions League final…) so I had better get cracking…
Firstly, it’s fantastic news that my mother has had her first ’successful’ eye operation in over a year – finally there has been an improvement in [...]