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Dave F
May 20, 20241 min read
A Quiet Place - Kenchester Water Gardens
Slap bang alongside the perpetually busy A49 just before it crashes into Hereford, Kenchester Water Gardens offers a decent morning out...
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Dave F
May 20, 20242 min read
A Quiet Place - Hellens Manor
Damp, drizzly cold really brought the place to life. Driving through Much Marcle, Fred and Rose West country, promised much, but whether...
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Dave F
Jun 19, 20231 min read
A Quiet Place - The Bridge, Leintwardine
The confluence (to hark back to ill-spent school geography lessons) of the River Teme and River Clun is a veritable jewel in...
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Dave F
Jun 19, 20232 min read
A Quiet Place - Flotation
This month’s Quiet Place comes from deep within a flotation tank, something humans were not designed to do but what is being touted as...
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Dave F
Apr 29, 20232 min read
A Quiet Place - Church Hill, Leintwardine
Deep in the rolling hills to the east of Leintwardine, the verdant green of the woodland trees gives way to the open ground of Church...
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Dave F
Apr 29, 20232 min read
A Quiet Place - Sea vs Sky
Having just returned from a brief foray into some of the busiest parts of Cornwall, masquerading as a holiday, talk has turned to ‘well,...
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Dave F
Apr 29, 20232 min read
A Quiet Place - Woodland Walk, Kinton
This Quiet Place has, and probably always will be, a personal favourite with the Cariad Wellbeing team. Squeezed in between prime sheep...
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Dave F
Apr 29, 20232 min read
A Quiet Place - Discovery Centre, Craven Arms
Less mammoth, more great white elephant, the Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre started life as a tourist attraction. Many grants later it...
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Dave F
Jan 20, 20232 min read
A Quiet Place - Mitchell's Fold
It's raining. Horizontally. Each droplet feels like a NERF bullet blasting into your cheek. A cold wind whips up from the West. Sometimes...
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Dave F
Nov 25, 20222 min read
A Quiet Place - Queen's Walk, Ludlow
For a relatively small town, there are precious few Quiet Places to be found in Ludlow. Those pesky town planners from the Middle Ages...
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Dave F
Nov 9, 20223 min read
A Quiet Place - Marden Church
We have a little ongoing joke in our family that it's not a proper car journey unless part of it takes place on minor roads with grass...
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Dave F
Sep 26, 20222 min read
A Quiet Place - Brockley Meadow, Leintwardine
Imagine a huge grassy back garden. It's on your wishlist, right? Now add a lazy meandering river. Better? How about a 5 arch 18th century...
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Dave F
Jun 29, 20222 min read
A Quiet Place - Wigmore Castle
There's a lot to be said for period restoration and expensive upkeep. No such folly up on the Wigmore hills with panoramic views across...
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Dave F
Feb 8, 20223 min read
Harnessing your inner growl
Back in the olden days. No, the really olden days, before man invented the padlock for his timber palisade, wild creatures barked, howled...
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Dave F
Jul 30, 20201 min read
Rosen completes long awaited “We’re Going On A Witch Hunt” while in hospital with Covid19
Michael Rosen, acclaimed children’s author and recent Children’s Laureate has finally completed the long awaited follow up to We’re Going...
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Dave F
Jul 25, 20202 min read
Old King discovered.
New historical evidence has come to light revealing a long forgotten king. DNA research has discovered that Richard IV actually ruled...
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Dave F
Jul 16, 20201 min read
MAN CHARGING ELECTRIC CAR DRAINS NATIONAL GRID
A man who plugged his electric car into a charging point in Church Stretton, has somehow managed to drain the entire National Grid...
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Dave F
Jun 18, 20202 min read
New 'Couch To 5 Feet fitness course popular with slackers
New ‘Couch To 5 Feet’ fitness course popular with retards.
A new home based virtual fitness regime is garnering rave reviews
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Dave F
Apr 2, 20202 min read
Spoilt rotten
So we're pretty spoilt. We live in a fantastic rural part of the country, leafy lanes and country walks on the doorstep. We have around...
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Dave F
Mar 26, 20202 min read
Don't look now.....
On a whim, or quite possibly on an errand to pick up some slippers (don't ask), I pulled into lovely Church Stretton last week. Always a...
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