Legendary Landscape
Bodmin Moor is alluring even on a rainy day. We wrapped up in waterproofs and trudged along the main track towards Gold Diggings Quarry on the left, and Cheesewring to the right. Which destination? We...
Happy 1st Birthday
Hasn’t time flown by? I can’t believe it’s a year since Word Loft first went online and I’ve written fifty-plus blog posts. Thanks to everyone who has read them, and an even bigger one to...
Kirtlington’s Charm
I’ve already written about the places in Oxfordshire and the Cotswolds that we travelled to and from while staying in Kirtlington but have decided to summarise our ten-day holiday base into one blog post. As...
From Teddy With Love
A huge bundle of post had accumulated over the summer holidays. Amanda blinked in disbelief, among educational supplements and map publications were three glossy postcards. One from St Ives. Another from Scotland, and the third...
A Bimble in Banbury
‘Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross’, the words of the nursery rhyme sprang to mind when we decided to visit Banbury on the last day of our Cotswolds break. The market town certainly sounded...
A Rollright Royal Reception
Ancient monuments fascinate me, so when we came across the Rollright location on Mr Word Loft and my Cotswolds holiday, I was delighted. It seems fitting to blog about them this week as well, it...
England’s Newest Castle
‘It looks like you can go inside,’ I said to Mr Word Loft after perusing a relative’s social media post with appealing photographs. Castle Drogo was a place we visited a few years ago when...
Venice of the Cotswolds
It was so memorable that Bourton-on-the-Water was one of the reasons we booked a Cotswolds holiday. It’s a place we visited briefly whilst on a coach tour years ago, and since then earmarked for a...
A Day Out in Oxford
I couldn’t resist straying from my original plan of blogging about our Cotswolds holiday in April, by writing, last week, of the profusion of bluebells encountered on a more recent walk in Cornwall. So back...
Enchanting
It was a well-kept secret. My son and partner moved to an apartment in a barn conversion at the weekend. They had shown us photographs of the property but not the estate’s grounds where it...