A Little Kentish Magic

Seeking out little moments of magic amidst the humdrum of every day life.

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  • Hello 2025

    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

  • Kent Coast Walk Part 6: Dover to Deal

    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

  • A Birthday Jaunt To Devon

    I am a bit weird when it comes to my birthday. I hate a fuss being made and I hate people wishing me happy birthday so much that I actively avoid telling anyone when it is, so that with one or two exceptions, only my immediate family know the date, and we mark the occasion… Read more

  • Kent Coast Walk Part 5: Folkestone to Dover

    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

  • Summer Walks – Revisiting Some Favourites

    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

  • Out and About in June

    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

  • Kent Coast Walk Part 2: Dungeness to Littlestone-on-Sea

    Two long bus journeys and I was back in Dungeness, ready to begin part 2 of my Kent Coast Walk. My expectations hadn’t been particularly high, as the route mostly just followed the coast road that I had been along many times before, and so I knew pretty much what to expect, but in fact… Read more

  • Kent Coast Walk Part 1: Camber Sands to Dungeness

    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