Wastwater, The Lake District

Once voted “Britains Favourite View” this is England’s deepest lake alongside England’s highest mountain, Scafell Pike. Apple iPhone 6: iso 32 | f 2.2 | 1/1412s | Apple iPhone 6: ISO 32| f 2.2| 1/1883s

Memories of Life in an old English village

Ten bob, or ten shillings from the mid 1950s equals 50p as a direct conversion in today’s UK currency. But using a Purchasing Power Calculator it would actually be worth £11.80 in value today, and this is the simple tale, a memory of shopping for my mum in our village when I was about 9...

Disappearing dandelions and forgotten ferns? Enough!

I always looked forward to Saturdays, no school, no Sunday School and no evening chapel, a day to disappear with my mates for exploration and fun. A hasty breakfast of bread and jam with a cup of tea, then out of the front door with another jam sandwich in a bag stuffed into my trousers...