by Ian Ferris | Oct 1, 2018
Our bike was already on its stand outside the front doors of the Riders showroom in Bridgwater when we arrived, a beautiful metallic cherry-red 2018 Harley Davidson Ultra Glide Classic. A huge machine with a lovely faring and windshield, causing passing traffic and...
by Ian Ferris | Sep 4, 2018
Some years’ ago you’d go out with family or friends with a camera and take a photo of the view or the cat or the children doing what children do. Sometimes you’d organise a group photo or you’d take a photo of Grandad playing with the kids. A couple weeks later you’d...
by Ian Ferris | Jun 28, 2018
It’s been a hot week in Cornwall. Temperatures here are the same as in Florida. The car says it’s 33 degrees so too sunny and hot for fishing but I’ve brought my rod and I’m keen to fling a few hooks at some trout on a lazy warm Cornish afternoon. I’m not a great...
by Ian Ferris | Jun 27, 2018
When we go camping nowadays we don’t bother with the paraphernalia of cooking, stove, stand, gas cylinder, pots, pans, utensils, washing-up bowl, cutlery, seasoning, et al. Our children are grown, we can eat where and when we like, so we just take an electric kettle,...
by Ian Ferris | Jun 23, 2018
An early morning departure and just over an hour’s flight later and with the show ground just a few minutes walk from Edinburgh Airport Arrivals we were eating a bacon sandwich and drinking a welcome coffee inside the ground just before 9am, in beautiful warm Scottish...
by Ian Ferris | Jun 19, 2018
Simpson’s in the Strand is one of London’s historic and iconic dining venues which I like very much, or at least, I did. I’ve been going there for years. Most of my career, in fact. I last went there on the day I retired, with the family. Entering a hallway through a...
