East Cliff from the sea

The Coast from the Sea

Those who know me well will know that I am slightly obsessed when it comes to exercise. For me, though, it has always been more about being out there in the elements than about the actual keeping fit bit. ‘The elements’ have varied from the tropical heat and my early days of running while living…

A Mighty Tale

A Mighty Tale in Lyme

It isn’t often that a brilliantly sunny Saturday morning in Lyme Regis makes me groan and utter the words “oh, if only it would cloud over…”. But that was what we were saying last week when the wondiferous Tim Britton, author and illustrator and all round good egg, was at Lyme Museum all ready to…

Durdle Door

Connecting with the Coast

It’s a strange thing, the lure of ‘the coast’. I can remember like it was yesterday those summer holidays down to the southwest, eagerly peering out of the window in the back of my dad’s Ford Sierra for that first glimpse of the sea. I usually started looking just past Andover, so I had a…