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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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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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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
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Once or twice a year, we cross the county border into East Sussex for a day in Rye. Less frequently we venture to Hastings, and the last time we did so, we walked along the seafront to St Leonards, saw the signs pointing to Bexhill-on-Sea and dearly wished we could have gone further if we’d… Read more
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Wingham is a village half way between Canterbury and Sandwich, and being on the main bus route between the two, is a perfect place for exploring the surrounding countryside. The first of the walks that we did this summer was from the ‘Kent Year Round Walks’ book, which we have had for a little while… Read more
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I read a lot about King Athelstan, both before and after our trip to Malmesbury, and during the course of this, was surprised to discover that he had been crowned in Kingston Upon Thames – a town on the border between Wessex and Mercia, and by choosing it, it thereby symbolised his unification of England.… Read more
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Way back at the end of May, we managed to get away on the mini break that I’d impulsively booked for my daughter’s birthday whilst I was still on sick leave and pretty much incapacitated by my CFS relapse. I had returned to work on a very slow phased return after Easter and despite the… Read more
A Little Kentish Magic 