Taunton

Autumn in Taunton

Taunton is our county town, and the River Tone flows through it; it is thirty-two miles long and rises in the Brendon Hills near the beautifully named Huish Champflower. The river does not flow directly into the sea but joins the River Parratett at Burrowbridge. Standing on the Tone Bridge, looking along the river with Deller’s […]

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Red sails, green boat

Walking along the seafront, along the promenade at Portstewart in Northern Ireland, we came across this extraordinary and beautiful sculpture. At first we couldn’t make out what it was but just circled it admiringly, was it seaweed, was it a boat, a sea-bird, a fish, was it something from some Irish legend? It didn’t take […]

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Mmmm cheese!

I love cheese… I like hard cheeses, soft cheeses, blue cheeses. I love cheese made from cow’s milk, goat’s milk, sheep’s milk, buffalo milk… I just love cheese. Every Thursday in our county town of Taunton there is a little market and there is a stall selling Wooton Organic Dairy cheese. I first came across it a couple of […]

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