Grimes Graves
5000 years ago neolithic britons were mining flint from holes in the chalk near Brandon. On the first proper day of spring this year, we decided to head out and take a look. A view from the air shows the…
Snowdonia
Last weekend we visited Jenny in North Wales and did a bit of exploring around the old slate mines of Bethesda (it also has very nice streams). We also had a a wild weather adventure near Mt Snowdon. See a…
Flowers
It was so nice and sunny today I took these photos of the flowers that Jan planted in winter and which are just coming up now. All those rows of vigorous plants are the edge of our allotment. All those…
More Mountaineering
Here are some more photos from our mountaineering course. In the second part of the course we started to get into more steep stuff. We learnt how to tie all our knots and practised them like crazy. Our intructor was…
Stone Tools
I don’t know what this was used for, but it seems pretty clear that it’s man made. I found it near Tuddenham on the heath near Bill Sutherland’s house. It’s close to an ancient flint quarry and human worked flakes…