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This is the part of the Kent Coast Walk that I have been dreading, knowing as I do that it involves not just a significant amount of rood walking that’s well away from the coast (because of a river and a nature reserve), but also a section along a very busy road. I was keen… Read more
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I have finally accepted that January is my lowest energy month, and instead of fighting it, have tried to embrace it by giving myself permission to stay inside in the warm and pursuing my more sedentary hobbies. As February progressed however, I was ready to slowly start coming out of hibernation mode, although the month… Read more
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My health has been suffering again over the last few months. Breaking my collarbone seemed to trigger a mini CFS relapse, which is apparently to do with the energy demands that your body needs to repair the injury affecting my already depleted energy supplies. I would normally spend December gadding about, visiting as many Christmas… Read more
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(A long overdue post for a walk completed last summer!) I’d been putting off this walk as, according to my Kent Ramblers Guide, it came in at 11 miles, and since my last big CFS relapse in early 2025, I had only managed to build back up to about 5. After looking at the map… Read more
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My daughter and I love Midsomer Murders, especially the older episodes with John Nettles as DCI Tom Barnaby, so back in the summer when I saw that there was going to be a touring production of The Killings at Badgers Drift (the very first episode), with Daniel Casey who was the original sidekick (Sergeant Troy)… Read more
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After the success of our summer Wingham walk from our Year Round Walks book by Michael Easterbrook, we determined that we would try and do one new walk from the book each season. The walk that we selected from the Autumn section was a 4 mile circular in Headcorn, a village in the Low Weald… Read more
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Not long after going on my belated birthday road trip it was my birthday again, and this time I was taken on a wonderful (apart from the weather!) mini break to Hampshire. I knew that I was going somewhere, but had no idea of the destination, and in fact my daughter kept me guessing by… Read more
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Living in the part of Kent that we do, we are surrounded by orchards – mostly apples, but pears and cherries too – and many of our local walks take us through them. I think I like them most in the spring when the trees are smothered with delicate pink blossoms, but there is something… Read more
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Trains are my favourite way to travel – which is just as well because I am scared of flying – and our summer adventure this year (which seems so far away now, but this has been sitting in draft form pretty much since then and needs finishing off!!) was particularly special, because way back at… Read more
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In the summer of 2023, my younger son passed his driving test, the first of my children to do so, and for my birthday that year, he made me a voucher for two trips to anywhere in Kent that I wanted to go. I was absolutely delighted, but such was my desire to pick the… Read more
Seeking out little moments of magic amidst the humdrum of every day life.
A Little Kentish Magic 