#fridaywoods

And so here it is Merry Christmas Its sunday morning and Snow is falling

Stella and I went out early this morning, and it was raining quite heavily. As i got back to our second floor flat, waiting for Tesco to arrive with our delivery and talking to my fiancee, i noticed that Snow is falling.

From my fiancee’s point of view and from my professional side, I see the danger but then i also look out…

Beautiful but noisy little blighter

The are plenty of positives to living on the edge of Fridaywoods but this beautiful owl lived up to its name, the screech owl, was practicing last night around midnight. 

I’ll defer to those more knowledgeable than I to tell us more about the screech owl and invite them to comment below please? 

There was a time when even the hurricane of Oct 1987 in the UK,…

I said this was allornothing and it is, so im changing matter again for a time. 

My spare tyre is growing a little to much so I must re focusand make a plan I cannot run as my knee is not up to it, but I do have a good fitness tool. 

Stella is without doubt the best fitness aide I have and can easily take two two mile walks per day so there us step 1. I guess step 2 is keeping up the speed. So…

July has seen a big learning curve in self hosting blogs. 

With my mentor Tim Stevens I opened a second site friendlytravelguide.com for which we are looking for guest bloggers who would be most welcome to add links to their own sites. 

My Seo knowledge had grown a little too, with terms such as long tail keywords in my vocabulary and my understanding and I’ve also realised that keywords are not…

After this find last night, a female Stag beetle, which according to the Essex Wildlife trust is on the endangered list my curiosity is up as to what else I may find. 

So it’s 630 am on a cooler Saturday on June and Stella and I are off on a walk thru fridaywoods Colchester, 

 The fields are a wash of Red splatters of poppies amongst the greens of the grasses and the sky is a dull grey. 

Turning…

So it finally came, Friday evening, and a well deserved weekend break for Stella, Louise and I. 

But Stella and I are out for our evening walk around Monkwick and the back of the barracks. 

Just to mark this, I believe a stag beetle, whether male or female I know not, but we saw this in the tunnel cutting thru from Friday wood Green onto Berechurch Hall Rd. 

After the Heat wave earlier in the…

Mission middlewick ranges……the hunt continues 

It’s been a while since my last report from the wick which is a battle ground for the moment between developers who want planning permission for a 1000 homes and those if us, including myself, who want to see it left as it is, with its rich biodiverse environment. 

I’m on Mersea Rd approaching Wick Lane which I shall turn down if there’s no red flag flying. Its a little muggy now at the end if…