travel

• June 10, 2023

  Part Three.

  After a disturbed night, I woke bleary eyed and with a sense of dread. Today, mum and I will be returning to Dorset driving on motor-ways. UGH! After Mum opened the curtains at five am, she announced she was awake and why wasn’t anyone else? Outside, the leaden clouds were depositing their contents, and the…

• May 27, 2023

  To Hull and Back.

  Part 2: Up to Whitby and Back. My son and his partner both work and the two children are at school or nursery, so mum and I explored for the day. We toured the north-east coast of Yorkshire, because once again, we’d heard of these small seaside towns but never visited. Leaving early in the…

• May 13, 2023

  To Hull and Back

  Part One: To Hull My mum told me over the phone that all you girls (the youngest of us girls, above, will celebrate her 60th birthday in November) were going on exotic holidays this year and she hadn’t been invited. Not only that, it looked like she wouldn’t be having a holiday at all this…

• April 22, 2023

  Popping over to Portugal.

  The sun burst over the horizon first thing this morning, but the weather forecast decided that it wouldn’t last and heavy showers were the prognosis. We didn’t change our plans to visit the ancient town of Monçao, just the other side of the river Miño, in Portugal. After all, we wouldn’t melt under a deluge…

• March 9, 2023

  Sunday, a day of small tasks.

  Today, Sunday, I wrote a list of small tasks that had been bugging me for ages. I was between writing projects, as I’d finished the first draft of a short story on Friday. On Monday I was due to start the monumental task of editing ‘The Forgotten Legacy’. Therefore, in theory, I had an entire…