A Change of Scenery
Anticipation is heightening. We have booked our main annual holiday after lots of debate. There are so many places Mr Word Loft and I want to travel to, but Croatia was our final choice. I...
Tuscan Dream
“Are we really here?” I asked my husband, as we sat sipping cappuccinos in the shade of a café parasol on the first day of our holiday. Tuscany was a destination we had longed to...
An Amble Around St Mawes
“Wonderful idea,” I said when a trip to St Mawes was suggested with our son and his partner for Mr Word Loft’s birthday. I love castles and have been drawn to the village’s one after...
One Misty Night
A lie, an accident, and a strange encounter on the moors filled Jake and Mitchell with uncertainty. Find out how they coped in this seven-minute-read short story. Click or tap the following link: Happy reading.All...
An Alpaca Day!
“Where shall we go that’s different from our usual haunts?” I asked Mr Word Loft. He had booked a day off of work to spend time with our grandson. And as if by magic, the...
Mystery Solved
At the end of last week’s blog post, I was mystified as to why little blue wooden hearts were staked into the ground along the banks of the River Sid flowing through Byes Riverside Park,...
A Mystery at Sidmouth
Red and green. Sidmouth’s cliffs’ colours embrace the Town Beach, bathing the landscape with a sense of warmth even in the height of winter. “Just a mo”, a woman cajoled a toddler tugging at her...
Decision Time
Where to go on holiday? It’s a question pondered over often early in the year. Somewhere new maybe, or return to one of the places not fully explored the first time around. Iceland is one...
Lakeside Life
“Watch-out. Pothole ahead.” The car’s satnav alerted us as we steered downhill to the Devonshire location on our first short break of 2023. The road wound through woodland brightened with rime-streaked trunks and branches. Ice...
The Pointing Finger
A piece of flash fiction on this website about Saffron and the irresistible purchase she made at a boot sale, but would the woodcut of a creepy Mediaeval man prove to be a good or...