Happy Star Wars Day

Yes it’s actually a thing Star Wars Day April started in a scramble, but it ended up behaving far better than expected. We managed to slot in three…

Plans Gone Rogue

Other than our annual Woodstock visit, we rarely stay rooted in one place for long — exploring new corners of the country and meeting new people is half…

Wintry Woodstock

Regular readers will know that we’re invited back to Woodstock a couple of times each year, with February reserved for our longer stay. It’s a cycle we’ve come…

Dodging Bullets

Dodging bullets; we’ll come back to that later… 2026 is shaping up to be another wonderfully busy year for us. Not only are we sitting all over the…

Wallop

We finished mid-December with our grand tour of The Wallops — a trio of villages that sound like they belong in a children’s book or a sitcom about…

Standing with Giants

So what could possibly top the Headington Shark? Well as it happens and as a birthday treat for Annette we did get the opportunity to take a trip…