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Bluebells are my absolute favourite flower. I would even go so far as to say that I am obsessed with them. We have a few glades of bluebells near us that I try and visit as often as possible during the short bluebell season, but after discovering several years ago that Hamstreet Woods has some… Read more
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This is the first year in a decade when I haven’t been suffering from a CFS relapse, or struggling to stop myself slipping into one, and to celebrate this fact, my daughter decided to take me on a Mother’s Day mystery day out. She co-opted one of her brothers to accompany us (with the advantage… Read more
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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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(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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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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The weather has been gloriously sunny in England this spring, and with a very gradual phased return planned for after the Easter holidays, and aware that once I was back at work, even with reduced hours, I was likely to be too exhausted to do anything in my free time, I was keen to get… 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
A Little Kentish Magic 