“Villages” are perhaps some of the most interesting, quirky and curious places that you can explore and with each village that you find you will also find quirky stories and of course history — even beautiful landscapes that surround them. Of course though one village that I discovered was a…

How many times do we all look up at the clouds? Perhaps not that often — yet today has been a day in which the country, if not the world and all of its 7.753 Billion people have been on the brink of a “nervous breakdown” with the news that…

What is a park? If you were to look up the meaning of the word park, it would more than likely say the following — “A large area of land with grass and trees, usually surrounded by fences or walls, and specially designed so that people can walk in it…

“Mundane, Grey and Meh” are possibly the best words to describe the August Bank Holiday of 2022, and after a summer of warmth, record breaking warmth with temperatures reaching a record breaking 40 degrees and heat waves slowly becoming the norm — “the new norm” to a degree as the…

When we think of the “urban environment” we think of it as being largely concrete or steel and if there is some form of countryside or green spaces we often think of them as being perhaps places of future development and definitely not areas that you would expect to find…

Gone was the heatwave, or at least that is what I had thought, the temperature was slightly cooler and whilst it had been warm during the day it was not exactly “heatwave temperature.” Instead it had been a glorious day and this particular early August afternoon, I had found myself…

Escapism from “a fractured and damaged world intertwined with constant bad news” is all that we need, and whilst the majority of television channels are filled with either drama about crime or thrillers, yet when a program about art comes on the television, which these days is “few and far…

Marmite might be the best word at the moment to describe the heat — and whilst it can do wonders for certain people (joint pains etc.) It can also be potentially dangerous; and the chances are that you might have completely ignored the year 2003 when some 72,000 people sadly…

There has to be something said about the lure of the water, the sun in the sky and something of a breeze on a Friday afternoon in May. I had found myself in the town of Belper, a quirky town to say the least that on the one hand has…