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I love Christmas but always approach the new year with a certain amount of trepidation. For as long as I can remember I have just felt terribly sad as the old year comes to an end, and having written a diary since the age of seven, the empty pages of a new volume have always… Read more
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In the run up to Christmas, I normally make an effort to visit a different town every weekend, to see their lights and have a browse around the Christmas markets. Unfortunately this year, there were two weekends with severe storms which coincided with the special Christmas events in Tenterden and Rye, where I decided that… Read more
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My daughter and I completed this next part of the coast path on 31st October in gloriously warm sunshine. Although we have walked from Dover to St Margarets and back, and Deal to Kingsdown and back many times before, we have only done the middle section once, and it was the first time that we… Read more
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Autumn is the perfect time for getting out into the woods to admire the fabulous leaf colour, and a highlight this year was a visit to the Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, the inspiration behind Winnie the Pooh’s Hundred Acre Wood. We caught the bus from East Grinstead to the village of Hartfield on the… Read more
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I haven’t just done Part 5 of my Kent Coast Walk, hot on the heels of a CFS flare up. We actually completed it on a very hot Sunday at the end of August, but I just haven’t had time to write it up and it is a very belated account. This is a section of… Read more
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Michaelmas, or the Feast of Michael and All Angels, is celebrated on 29th September and is associated with the coming of Autumn and the shortening of days. St Michael was one of the three main Archangels, along with Gabriel and Raphael. He was the Archangel of justice, strength, and courage and was the main man,… Read more
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The Kent Coast and River Medway walks that we had embarked upon, the day out in Cambridge, and more particularly our recent week away, were all spaced out, but each left me completely drained, and whilst being mindful of not pushing myself into a full CFS relapse, I have still tried to get out and… Read more
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I work in a school, and the last few weeks of term have been incredibly busy and stressful as I have been organising an activity week. Months in advance I am always full of what I think are fantastic ideas, but then as it gets closer and I have to put them all into place,… Read more
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My two coastal walks pretty much zapped my energy for the whole of June, and having had to take a couple of days of sick leave, I really needed to make sure that I kept to my more usual routine of shorter morning walks and afternoon naps. Two successive walks in Faversham involved cow encounters!… Read more
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I have been wanting to walk the Kent Coast for a few years now but my daughter, who is my usual walking companion, couldn’t see the point because we have done so much of it in assorted directions already. However, I really want to do it in order, from start to finish and, as I… Read more
A Little Kentish Magic 