Follow Jeff Bevan across Somerset
Spring reaches its peak in May. This month, flowers of all colours spread across the woodland, grasslands and countryside. Insects emerge from mayflies, dragonflies and butterflies. Friendly rabbits nibble at the grass. Lambs dash...
The UK has half the world’s population of bluebells. Today I wondered if it also has half the world’s population of fairies. Their little doors can be found throughout the woods in Biddle Combe...
Around Wells in Somerset is a patchwork of little woods. It is difficult to tell from the map where one ends and another begins. In spring they are full of bluebells. But if you...
When I last posted we had no idea how quickly things were about to change. In a time of spring sunshine we are staying at home. Who knows what is ahead and when or...
We were all beginning to think that we would not get a real winter this year. It has been so warm – and cloudy. But today it finally snowed and the landscape around the...
Steep Holm is a small wood between Dinder and Dulcote in Somerset. The whole area is a patchwork of little woods and it is difficult to tell from the maps where one ends and another...
Not all churches stand at the top of a hill, or next to a village green, for all to see. Many nestle down between trees, in combes or even farmyards. On my cycle ride today I was...
Telephone Library – Dinder, Nr Wells, Somerset, UK. ID JB5_0853. This is one of Britain’s tiny libraries that are springing up around Somerset starting at Westbury-sub-Mendip. From telephone exchange to book exchange they are...
