Tony's Blog

Just back from a Christmas break near Beaminster, in Dorset. You may not find a lot about the place in guidebooks but it is really a lovely ...

Apologies to Dylan Thomas - if he can hear me, but there was little to see today on my walk home from Daventry, having left Chris in town wi...

I commented in a recent blog ('And winter has barely started', 5 December) that this is the time of the year when lichens come into ...

At this time of the year Mistletoe, Viscum album, tends to be the subject of magazine articles, with much discussion of its ritual signific...

A potentially attractive walk exists from Borough Hill Farm, a mile or so to the east of Daventry, and entering the town through the Southbr...

farrago  n. a disordered mixture. And that sums up the observations I made on my morning walk today. Daventry has its limitations. There...

We are currently enjoying a spell of unseasonably mild weather but only a few days ago we had a sequence of very frosty nights. The conseque...