12 Days Around Britain Tour

  In August I travelled from Dungeness to Inverness and back via Wiltshire, Dorset, Cornwall, Cardiff, Malvern, Salop, Lancs, Gretna Green, Loch Ness, The Black Isle, Edinburgh, Hadrians Wall, Durham, Norfolk & Suffolk mweting friends and playing sax on 8 hills = here are some highlights = my final lap was playing an hour of…

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Left & Right Bordeaux in Tuo Châteaux

  Hello! Two very definitive exciting Bordeaux reds today! Tuo tasting one right bank and one left bank French wines of Bordeaux Right bank inc St Emilion, Pomerol, Blaye, Castillon & Fronsac mostly merlot with rich plum and soft velvet from clay soil Left bank inc St Estephe, Medoc & Margaux mostly Cabernet Sauvignon with…

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Operation Eagle Around GB in 12 Days

  Welcome! St LadyFeck is on the road around the British Isles in 2000 miles over 12 days Here I post a daily roundup of doings with a sax solo – caution is required, anyways let’s beguine!   So I’m on a Dorset celtic hillfort with a great view for miles! Later I visit the…

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Havana Club Especial Rum

  My favourite August evening tipple, rub a little on a nipple (your own or someone’s) 🏝🍍🥃 Havana Club Especial golden rum 37.5% aged in oak born bred and aged in Cuba Let’s see what the fuss is about 👇🏼     Mm delicious! Excellento And a guitar flourish with this 🎶🎶 by me  …

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Top British Ciders 3x Westons

  Well good day! 🍏🍎 more cider reviewing!! Today I have 3 famous ciders from Henry Westons of Much Marcle in Herefordshire and hopefully I’m encouraging you to a couple of nights away walking on Malverns Hills, visiting Hereford & Worcester cathedrals, marketing in Ledbury and touristing in nearby Eastnor Castle! Chinners!! Tonight’s supper bite…

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Flower Festival Piano Bonanza

  Hello and Welcome to Appledore Flower Festival 2025 Theme Hobbies, the flowers are beyond exquisite and the sun is shining, there’s chocolate cake, an art exhibition, book stall and the pianist is just warming up Would you like a nice cup of tea? Local businesses have sponsored all the floral displays and the proceeds…

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Brewery Spotlight Hook Norton

  ♠ Hello and welcome to Brewery Spotlight Hook Norton one of Britain’s older traditional tower breweries since 1849 the Head Brewer is JW Clarke great great grandson of Jim Harris founder! A regular pilgrimage for myself since the early 1990s and an interlayering of top old favourites to new wave beers containg oats and…

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Sussex Shopkeeper Historic Pubs

Hello & welcome to my historic epic trip set around olde shops and pubs in the area of East Hoathly in East Sussex where the diarist Thomas Turner kept shop in the mid 1700s Turner wrote of village affairs and drunken bouts 1754 – 65 before marrying his second wife Molly Hicks who put paid…

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Westons Vintage Cider 8.2%

So here is Henry Weston of Much Marcle in Herefordshire with Vintage Cider 2024 well oaked and knocking in at a hefty 8.2%!! 🍎🍏 if you dare! I make the case for west country cider     Add this glamorous cider to your drinks repertoire, good for your gut! Perfect with mature cheddar and pork…

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Leeds Castle February Extravaganza

Leeds Castle near Maidstone in Kent entertains 600,000 visors annually, here showcasing February’s Castle in Chaos display — once the favoured retreat of King Henry VIII famous for collecting wives — some images courtesy of mr penguin Many Kent picture 📸 albums at https://bmc.link/LadyFeck   ♠

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