January 2012

So there we were grabbing a weekend walk in Delemere woods near Chester before the sun went down at some unearthly hour of the afternoon. It seemed so much darker than it really was in the woods as the light was coming at us from the side and the trees although a mixture of evergreen…

‘Up Top’ is where I spent most saturdays with my brother when I was a kid. It’s a piece of land lovingly tendered by my dad for the last 50 years and his dad before him. It had everything we could ever ask for, bonfires, underground dens, old motorbikes we used to ride round on,…