Tag Archives: hiking
christmas on dartmoor, part 1
Stuart and I went to stay with the writer and illustrator Philip Reeve, his photographer and musician wife Sarah and their son Sam over Christmas. We ran about making so many different things that I’ll have to put them into … Continue reading
crazy sunbeams, rainbows an’ stuff on the moor
So many of my trips for work the past couple years have started with this bear. Whenever I visit him at Paddington station, he asks if I’ve brought him marmalade, and sometimes I remember. This time I brought him Nutella, … Continue reading
last days of summer
No, summer is not over! NO NO NO. And I can say this confidently because Stuart has NOT ALLOWED it. There have to be some perks to your job when you work for the government. So we spent today’s late-summer … Continue reading
hiking thames marshes, or why you shouldn’t pop blackberries in your mouth without looking first
Aw man, isn’t this the cutest little snail you ever saw? Stuart’s finished hiking the Capital Ring around London, so he took me along on the first leg of the London LOOP (which stands for London Outer Orbital Path). Walking … Continue reading
another sarah mcintyre pops up from the bluebells!
I swear I didn’t plan this, but when Stuart and I went for a hike in the Kent countryside on Friday, the footpath took us right through someone’s garden. And that someone just happened to have her business sign on … Continue reading
rudyard kipling had a great desk
Yesterday Stuart and I took the train out to Robertsbridge station in East Sussex and walked through fields and little woods to Bateman’s, the home of Rudyard Kipling.
london capital ring: stoke newington to hackney marshes
Today Stuart and I walked Section 13 of the Capital Ring, which took us by the new Olympic stadium site. It was pretty impressive, but my camera had run out of batteries by that time, so I’ll show you some … Continue reading
arundel castle
One last day of sightseeing with my parents, this time to one of England’s finest castles, in West Sussex.
eltham palace
Another day of London sightseeing with my parents: Today we took the bus from Greenwich to Oxleas Wood, then walked three miles through the woodland to a beautiful English Heritage property called Eltham Palace. The buildings date back to the … Continue reading
Constable country
Today Stuart took the day off work and the three of us went hiking at the border of Essex and Suffolk, where Constable painted the Haywain and other pictures. Really gorgeous day.
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