by Ian Ferris | Nov 14, 2018
Mostly, I’ve found, things don’t always go quite as one expects, for good or for bad, for richer, for poorer, in sickness or in health. The unexpected happens, a piece doesn’t fall into place, a wrong turning is taken, something wrong is said, a trip doesn’t quite...
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 | Sep 1, 2018
Santorini is a crescent-shaped island enclosing a 12x7km lagoon in the centre of which is its creator, a small volcano island which together indicates their history. Wikipedia says: [Santorini] is the site of one of the largest volcanic eruptions in recorded history:...
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 24, 2018
When we visit a new city we like to take a sightseeing bus around it first and even though we’ve visited Edinburgh a number of times before we decided we’d walked enough at the Highland Show the day before so we hopped on a hop on-hop off city sightseeing bus and...
