The Wedding Journal – 1

This is a sample post from Lynne Pearl’s series The Wedding Journal on the blog Shine A Light On Life The Wedding Journal by Lynne Pearl(Shortlisted for Yeovil Prize for Literature, ‘Writing Without Limits’ 2016) Written for everyone who: Introduction: A Wedding on Two Continents What began as the story of a wedding and its…

Bus to Bude

We have to leave early, before nine o’ clock on a Saturday morning, passing first of all the St Thomas train station through the sleeping suburb, we take the Dunsford road out of town and rise up and away from the city below us. The backpackers get on our bus in twos along the way….

Ride on an open-top bus to Padstowe

We were just out for a drive but drove farther and farther into Cornwall. We sped past Bodmin Moor, eclipsed Dartmoor, lying huge and mighty on the skyline. We weren’t trying to cross Dartmoor today, we had other ways to go. We were travelling on the A30 via Bodmin and Launceston. At the top of…

Three buses to the moor

We leave town passing through a green leafy tunnel formed of trees reaching over the road from both sides and catching hands. Then the open country arrives and we are driving beside the flood plain of a mighty river, which floods in winters when there’s heavy rains. Then we begin to climb and on our…

Wells Cathedral

Rainwater falls on the Mendips and then ‘pots’ of water are formed where the water is pushed up by geological formations. The area dates to 3000 yrs BC with a neolithic settlement and even today there is water bubbling up continually. It’s in the garden at the front entrance to the cathedral and beside the…

Oxford Town: May 2016

It must be warmer here and the leaves come earlier. The second surprise is the shape of the hills, they are slow and gently undulating with long low liens and trees with large nests, like a rookery. Why are there tufts of trees on the tops of the hills. Do they serve a purpose? And…