Weston-super-Mare

Maverick tequila

Pubs and and pints... beer, wine and spirits by LoisFebruary 19, 2013February 19, 2013

Sea bathing at Weston-super-Mare

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Pubs and and pints... beer, wine and spirits by LoisJanuary 21, 2013January 21, 2013

I’ve always been a pub person, I guess because my dad Donald was; he had been brought up in a pub, the Portland Arms Hotel, and for him pubs were a place to meet friends and socialise. As we grew up as children, his local was not the Portland; his parents no longer had the pub after 1950, and Donald went to the New […]

A dilemma

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Steart

A brilliant December day along Bridgwater Bay in Somerset. To the south are the Quantock Hills, to the west across the sea is Wales and to the north, beyond the peninsular of Brean Down, is Weston-super-Mare. Even Hinkley Point the nuclear power station (shiver) looks unthreatening in the glorious sunshine.