Nothing screams murder like shopping near Christmas. So either through sheer idiocy or a blatant disregard for our sanity or the safety of others, we decided to visit Lincoln’s Christmas Market held…
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Well it might be over 700 years old with a layout as lawless as an open plan prison riot, (let’s not forget the funfair free-for-all fisticuffs of the Great Cheese Riot) but…
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Photos from our holiday on The Lizard in Cornwall including Lizard Point, Mullion, Sennen, Goonhilly, Maen Cliff, St Michael’s Mount, St Ives, Land’s End, Zennor, Mousehole, Penzance, Coverack, Porthleven. It’s got cream…
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It’s the annual 10th DH Lawrence festival, a set of events in and around DH Lawrence’s birthplace of Eastwood to celebrate the sights and sounds of the local area. This is also…
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Living midway between two large East Midlands towns, I can count on one hand the times I’ve been to Derby. It doesn’t sound like the most appealing place, yet another homogenised high street…
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Although its on our doorstep, there’s nowhere as remote as Derbyshire for a daytrip. Though its not as remote as to remove the dragnet of surveillance but enough to give the Sat-Nav…
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The idyllic English countryside, gentle rolling hills, lush green grass, a great British picnic of heavenly delights with serene and peaceful retreat. In reality, a pre-packaged sandwich and bag of crisps from…
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Trip to York and the Battlefield of Towton. A long weekend but no lazy days for us. Time to pound the pavement with a visit to the wild barren northern frontier, or…
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For my birthday treat, I have dragged Sam to Nottingham Castle and Mortimer’s Hole. Well, it used to be a castle, its now a ducal mansion, although fragments remain of the old…
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Leeds Royal Armouries – They’ve got knives, knights, sharp sticks, boomsticks, falchions, flintlocks, helmets, habergeons, mail and men-at-arms. Or as the Royal Armouries at Leeds say themselves, examples of arms, armour and…
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Photos from the National Space Centre in Leicester. We’ve been twice now to the National Space Centre, once when it first opened and more recently in June 2013. First the bad bits.…
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Another trip into the deep dark hilly badlands of Derbyshire, this time to a hidden little gem called Lumsdale Valley. A wooded gorge of crumbled stone ruins from industrial remains, waterwheels, ponds…
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On this weeks extreme dog walk, a trip to my first home village of Clipstone or more precisely Clipstone Colliery, itself now part of Vicar Water Country Park. It’s fair to say…
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The North East Yorkshire coast, Whitby, Scarborough, Filey, Bridlington. Ah yes, that time of year, to get away from it all, leave the rat race behind, enjoy summer, supposedly summer anyway, and…
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Stanton Moor overlooks the Derwent and Wye valley, lying 300 metres above sea level, has been used for thousands of years. In the Bronze age four thousand years ago, people settled here using…
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A London city break, tea with the queen, expensive hotels, Big Ben, the tube, pearly kings and queens, jellied eels and cockney wankers. The cockney wanker in question was in fact some…
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A little trip to Stratford upon Avon and Warwick Castle. In true rip off Britain fashion, this pretty chocolate box place also knows how to charge (even the campsite). Want to visit…
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A holiday in Devon to Torbay taking in Torquay, Paignton, Babbacombe. Strange weather, had its own little micro climate going off, this is supposed to be the English Riviera. Steep steps down…
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Pictures form a short camping trip to Weymouth and Portland September 2009. Famous for its World Heritage Coastline known as the Jurassic coast with its fossil remains. Stopping at a fantastic site…