Life's about experiences. These are mine.
I don’t think that there is any landscape that isn’t improved by a dusting of snow and when it is already a great vista the snow makes it magical (until it melts and becomes a slushy mess obviously!). This last weekend we were with friends in Northumberland and the snow allowed for some great landscape …
“All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?” Well, they built a bloody great big wall running from the River Tyne to the Solway Firth, a total of 70 miles, and over the weekend …