Author Archives: nickletjog

Saturday 22 to Wednesday 26 February 2025 I reported around this time last year from the Lake District, where I spent a few days with a group of fellow walkers from west Hertfordshire. We had such a wonderful stay that we repeated the experience this year, twenty of us this time, based from the ElterwaterContinue reading “Where The Sky Is”

Friday 14 February 2025 ‘I want to thank you for the hearts and flowers’ seems a fitting sentiment for a Valentine’s Day Blog as another week of grey skies progresses. I have a limited number of pictures to share today, as highlights in the countryside around these parts take a little finding whilst one isContinue reading “Hearts And Flowers”

Tuesday 7 to Tuesday 14 January 2025 I have never been one to dread the English winter, often writing here previously on the joys of a brisk ramble on a frost-covered January morning in the Chiltern countryside, or wherever I happen to be on our varied land at this time of year. But on thisContinue reading “Walking In The Sun”

Monday 6 January 2025 I had been intending to pen this short missive last week as a conveyance of New Year wishes, and in order to bid you all a happy and active 2025. However, a busy few days led into a fun weekend, where I really was made to feel the centre of attentionContinue reading “When I’m Sixty-Four”

Wednesday 18 December 2024 Perhaps it comes with age, or just through keeping busy, but each year does indeed seem to fly by quicker than the last, and here we are, seemingly blown in quite suddenly by Ashley, Bert, Conal and Darragh, now deep into December and with the festive period looming. The high streets,Continue reading “It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas”

Wednesday 20 to Friday 22 November 2024 The predominantly dry weather of this month, up until a week ago, has made for some particularly colourful vistas here in the Chilterns – up in the skies, across the fields, and within the woods: perfect conditions for some wonderful ‘cornflake’ rambles. The eventual arrival of the rainContinue reading “After Rain”

Friday 1 to Friday 8 November 2024 Rachel and I have been fortunate this autumn to enjoy a number of trips away following her retirement in the summer. We have become quite familiar with Cornwall over the last decade, spending a week (and sometimes two separate weeks) each year on the rugged north coast ofContinue reading “Song For Cornwall”

Thursday 31 October 2024 Keats’ ‘season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’ is now well upon us and, particularly on the days when the sun breaks through, the autumn colours in our woods are indeed quite a sight to behold! Since returning from our October ‘summer holiday’ Rachel and I have been enjoying the fall inContinue reading “Autumn Leaves”

Thursday 3 to Saturday 19 October 2024 (Part Two) This account of the Italian leg of our travels forms the second part of the walking trip that Rachel and I completed recently. After five days in the Alps we left Switzerland by train, departing the mountains as we headed southward to Milan, and thence toContinue reading “Tuscan Skies”

Thursday 3 to Saturday 19 October 2024 (Part One) A busy summer, of family events and celebrations, has meant that this year Rachel and I deferred our summer holiday until into the autumn. Avoiding the heat of high summer has certain advantages, especially for walkers such as us, and so we decided upon a two-countryContinue reading “The Call Of The Mountains”