by Ian Ferris | Aug 19, 2019
Camping then…. We had a caravan when the girls were young and we enjoyed many family holidays in it around the UK and our annual ‘big tow’ to the Dordogne or south of France. We’ve always preferred a level of comfort to any sort of rough camping so our last...
by Ian Ferris | Jun 6, 2019
‘Nose up’ (actually ‘tail-up’ too) to the 16th Century town hall in Puebla de Sanabria Three days before our 24-hour ferry journey to Santander Brittany Ferries wrote to advise us that, due to rudder problems requiring our ship to go into dry dock for...
by Ian Ferris | May 25, 2019
“God’s own country”? An understatement, I say, and haggis for breakfast too! We’ve reached “the end of the road” according to the sign at John o’Groats on our driving tour of Scotland, with the dogs. It’s been a wonderful trip so far. The weather has been very kind to...
by Ian Ferris | Feb 2, 2019
. Three mornings a week, Leah, Colin and Laura attend a ‘Boot Camp’ exercise class on the green above the beach. Run by a Navy PE instructor it’s a tough 45 minute workout I can personally vouch for from my vantage point at Leah’s apartment window, mug of tea in...
by Ian Ferris | Jan 8, 2019
Back in the summer I wrote about an unusual Commons statement made by the then Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, that some 450,000 women over a near ten year period had not been properly invited for their final breast screening and this error had potentially led to...
