The next town over is…Overton. They had a scary weekend: the town was filled with all shapes and sizes of Scarecrows. It knocked the socks off the one we saw last year in Micheldever, and is something us folks in Whitchurch should consider doing in the years to come, too!
It seemed every street in town [...]
For three years running now, we make an outing to Sir Harold Hillier Gardens near Romsey to see their spectacular gardens and the annual show of art in those gardens.
We liked this years’ art. One of the most interesting sculptures was one made from sections of white plastic tubes, which was wrapped around and up [...]
Long gone are the days of “back-pack camping”, when you go camping with whatever you could carry on your back – away from civilisation, miles from the nearest road, deep in the Siberian forests or the North-West Territories.
Things were simple those days: a tent, box of matches, two saucepans, spoon, knife, aluminum mug, sleeping bag [...]
We headed to Odiham, near to Fleet, Hampshire to explore the Basingstoke Canal. Ironically, the canal doesn’t quite reach Basingstoke!
Google Earth GPS locations:
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First, we headed up along the old tow-path from the car park next to the canal in Odinham. It winds its way to North Warnborough. The route was a bit noisy, what [...]
Tosha finally got his chance to experience Longleat. It has been a four years (to the day plus 1) since we were there last with Tolii (see below for video of that trip).
Grandpa, just a week into his visit to us, came along to see what all the fuss was about.
Katya had planned the start [...]
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