Mendip Gold
Autumn can come and go in a heartbeat. For me this was one of those years. A late start followed by a series of storms that removed many of the leaves. Combine this with...
Category: Mendip Hills
Snow on the Mendip Hills
Down in the valley there was no sign of snow, but looking out the bedroom window the hills were covered in the white stuff. So time to jump in the car and and get...
Pen Hill
Pen Hill is the Mendip Hills red light district. The mast is nearly 300m tall and sits on the top of a 300m hill in Somerset. It is surrounded by rough grazing and dry-stone...
Mendip Gorse
There is not a lot of gorse on the limestone Mendip Hills in Somerset. However, I have noticed it seems to be doing very well this spring. Maybe I have not paid it enough...
Wolf Moon
I headed up the hills to the Somerset Wildlife Trust nature reserves. I had been working all day and just had to get out of the house. I arrived a bit late. My plan...
Autumn Lady’s-tresses
Towards the end of August I start to look out for this little orchid growing in the short grassland high up on the Mendip Hills. Their name comes from their tiny flowers spiralling around...
Let it Snow
First Snow of Winter Christmas is never over, unless you want it to be. And nothing keeps Christmas going better than some snow. I was waking the rest of the house up at...
Butcombe Trail
The Butcombe Trail It is amazing how far some people can run. But when I discovered that the 56 mile Butcombe Trail ultramarathon was on my doorstep I quickly realised it was about 56...
First Snow
The First Snow We recently had snow for the first time this year. We did have some last October, not very much but with the autumn colours out it was pretty photogenic. I did...
Round Wood
Milton Hill Each lunch time I would walk around the woods above Wells in Somerset. The walk was a barometer telling me the progress of the seasons. When the wood anemones were about to...
