Feel the Fear and Backpack Anyway
Off 'adventuring' again....
Spring has sprung. Weir Pool frog nursery has opened đ¸ 4th March 2021, and a year since we flew back from India to the UK. At the time the UK had a grand total of 55 cases of coronavirus. A Read More …
âHuman beings necessarily depend on one another, as in You can’t manage this all by yourself; no man is an island.â This expression is a quotation from John Donne’s Devotions (1624): âNo man is an Island, entire of it self; every man is Read More …
I couldnât resist using Boris Johnsonâs âTis the season to be jolly….. carefulâ as this blogâs title. He said it during a recent Downing Street public announcement, which was from his Downing Street flat as he was self-isolating…. again. So, Read More …
The village put on a fantastic Covid-safe alternative to the usual door-to-door âtrick or treatâ on 31st October. The dark streets were full of carved faces in lit pumpkins, grim reapers, spooky window displays, a sinister looking character playing a Read More …
Glen created this website to enable us to blog about our overseas âadventuringâ but it has, for now, become a diary of these unprecedented times of the Covid-19 pandemic that is keeping us in the UK. Therefore I am once Read More …
Boris encouraged us to âenjoy summer safelyâ as pubs and restaurants opened up again on July 4th, having been closed for three months during lockdown. The chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a new government initiative called âEat out to help outâ. Read More …
As the government allowed schools to re-open to Reception, year 1 and year 6 classes on 1st June, most non-essential workers choose to keep their children at home and remained in lockdown for fear of catching the virus. We had Read More …
We are still loving life in lockdown up here in âthe Marshâ đ There isnât much to fear here except, in my case, a field full of cows! I know picking bluebells and particularly removing the bulbs is illegal and Read More …
On the special 8th May Bank Holiday, we commemorated the 75th Anniversary of VE Day on a gorgeous sunny day in Marshfield. The commemorations began with Geoff riding his tractor down the length of the High Street to the War Read More …
Lucky in lockdown So, on 14th April we packed up our belongings from Karenâs bedroom and garage, loaded up our car and drove to our new temporary âhomeâ eight miles up Tog Hill to the Cotswold village of Marshfield. We Read More …