After #Nettlebed there was a nice long drop down off the #Chilterns towards #Wallingford. Briefly stopped at the WW2 bomber crash memorial above #Hailey, then #Ipsden, #NorthStoke, #Wallingford and home.
A grand day out Gromit.
#Cycling
Did a nice off-road circuit to (almost) #Henley today. First hour spent along/through fields to Britwell, then up in to the #Chilterns.
Climbed through the woods parallel to #Britwell Hill which was magic. Most trails were just right - pretty dry but not over-grown with brambles.
#Cycling
April 2026 calendar now available to download
#Oxford #spires #rooftops
#Cotswolds #Bibury #ArlingtonRow
#Chilterns #Bluebells #woods
#Alderney #harbour #boats
#April #desktopcalendar #calendar
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Photo of a water vole in the Chilterns. Chiltern Society charity logo in the bottom left of image.
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This Saturday join us for the first in a short series of walks celebrating the rich literary history of Buckinghamshire.
www.metropolitan-walkers.org.uk
#ramblersgb #hiking #marlow #frankenstein #chilterns
A photo, mostly of sky. A number of different types of cloud are visible, some dark, some white. The blue sky is darker towards the top of the image. In the foreground is a band of dark fields and trees. The moon is visible near top-centre.
Today felt a bit brighter.
A day of sunshine and showers with varied and fast-moving #clouds. The moon put in an appearance too for this #scape.
#PhotoADay #Chilterns
Chalk Vespers 1847 Mary Anning, Palaeontology pioneer, Vanishes from the Upper World. Her Spirit, with Cephalopod agility, Enters the chalk-pored Dorset Downs near Lyme, Harrowing the holloways of The Great Ridgeway, as it glances Stonehenge and Wayland Smithy waymarks. Crests the Chilterns at Ivinghoe Beacon, Grooving the ancient droves of Icknield Way, until it lopes into an Eleventh-hour chicane at Knettishall Heath. From where, Drawn by the timber-circled Seahenge lodestone, and Shadowing the progress of Penitents along Peddars Way, it Emerges at Holme. Following the setting sun to The Wash, Mary Anning’s spirit Nests itself in the dreams of one Henry L'Estrange Styleman Le Strange Who, sensing a gathering Apocalypse - Uncovering, Unfolding - Seeks to eclipse his north-winded Fishing village with a West-facing wise folly. Gothic-revival reverie bodied forth in Honeystone-Town, Hunstanton, Quarried and fashioned from the very Carrstone that edges out Albion in the Layer-Cake Cliffs, Where Solstice-sun illumination of Ancient barrows has since Become a nightly Vespers: Stratified slice of Earth’s Deep-Time testimonies Bathed in an Evening light that Sanctifies seventy-seven Million years of the Cretaceous. Man’s two-millennia Tenure as Crown of Creation: Guttering lantern glow that Cuts a Faltering path through the Gloaming. © Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025
Map of the Great Chalk Way network of long-distance paths, starting at Lyme Regis, Dorset in southwest England, and ending at Holme-next-the-Sea in Norfolk, East Anglia. Mary Anning's ghost/spirit follows this route in the poem.
©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2021 Layer-Cake Cliffs at Hunstanton, Norfolk, England.
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©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025/2021
#poetry #MaryAnning #Chalk #Ridgeway #WestCountry #Chilterns #EastAnglia #ScienceAndPoetry #GreatChalkWay #Hunstanton
Should rural communities rely more on buses instead of cars?
The 41 connects villages, rail, Heathrow & Gatwick.
Would YOU use it more if services expanded? Why or why not?
Let’s debate 👇
#Transport #RuralTransport #ClimateAction #Chilterns #SustainableTravel
Today’s mini adventure: train to #Twyford then cycle back to #Didcot via #Henley and the #Chilterns. Not much ☀️, too much 💧 but enjoyable nonetheless.
66k and 660m of climbing. Old Bix Road above Henley was a nice steep climb: my new “granddad gears” chainring worked really well 😀
#Cycling
A free bus route linking villages to rail lines.
Local schools investing in careers.
Artists fundraising for community spaces.
HP16 is quietly building the future.
What’s one thing you’re proud of locally? Drop it below 👇
#Bucks #Chilterns #StrongerTogether #LocalSuccess #InvestInCommunity
February 2026 calendar now available to download
#Oxford #Spires
#Cotswolds #BourtonontheWater
#Chilterns #RiverThames
#Alderney #FortTourgis #ChannelIslands
#February #desktopcalendar #calendar
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A view of a graveyard with mostly stone crosses, but with a solid tombstone to the right. The ground is covered with yellow flowers in the foreground, and shite flowers in the background.
Happy #Imbolc to those who celebrate!
We've reached the halfway point between the Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. Here, a profusion of snowdrops and aconites at St Botolph's Churchyard in Swyncombe, in the #Chilterns, UK.
#WildFlowerHour
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Important civil engineering milestone reached on UK’s new high-speed railway - tinyurl.com/yc3skpyy
#Aspermont #HS2 #Infrastructure #Tunnelling #TBM #Chilterns #AlignJV
An old valley track in The Chilterns, between Russell's Water and Devil's Hill, early on a winter morning. (Walk with Louise) #winter #Chilterns
A Chiltern bridleway on a freezing morning, in the valley between Cookley Green and the Warburg nature reserve. #winter #chilterns
Outbreak of spectacular icicles overnight on hedgerow - very local phenomenon next to flooded road #Chilterns #winter
A map, plotting a cycle ride, starting and finishing in Didcot in Oxfordshire (UK).
A bicycle tool bottle. It looks tatty, but is dry and almost dirt-free, despite 4hrs on rough roads in December.
A happy chappie(!), in winter cycling attire, standing beside a quiet country road.
Managed a 50 mile/80k loop through the #Chilterns today. It was pretty cold - around 4 dec C - but the roads were bone dry. When I got home my tool bottle, which is carried under the down tube (and no mudguards) was dry and pretty clean. Not normal for a December ride but no complaints!
#Cycling
Wild garlic flowers backlit by the setting sun. It's taken from ground level and you can see the petals highlighted by the sun.
A large area of white wild garlic flowers and lots of greenery. It's in a little dip in a woodland with trees with bright green new leaves around. Dappled sunlight is coming through.
The setting sun comes through gaps in the trees above a carpet of wild garlic flowers, some looking orange where the sun hits them.
More wild garlic flowers backlit by the setting sun. There is some reflection on the leaves too, which look orange.
I barely took the camera out in May - sunrises are just too early! But I discovered a lovely woodland nearby with wild garlic, which resulted in many jars of homemade pesto (by hubby) - great way to meet the neighbours, offering out homemade food!
#YearInReview #AwesomeFoursome #Chilterns
A snow-dusted mountain top under blue/grey cloud with a patch of sunlight on the autumnal slopes below.
A long exposure shot of a dawn morning with a metal viking ship sculpture on a platform by a fjord.
A mountain with pointy finger-like peaks is partly covered in low cloud and fog, and a bright red rescue helicopter is seen hovering nearby (about to do a successful rescue of two climbers!).
Morning sunlight filters through tall mostly-bare trees with some early green beech leaves on a hanging branch. The forest floor is covered with beautiful pink/purple bluebells.
Happy Boxing Day! For this week only, there's 25% off prints and downloads on my website! Link in bio.
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#Scotland #Iceland #Dolomites #Chilterns
🚧 HS2 update: The project is "behind schedule." Works continue over Christmas. Footpath GMII/2 (Chiltern Heritage Trail) closes for up to 12 months from 5th Jan.
😟 How is the ongoing construction affecting your daily life? Vent or share a positive finding below.
#HS2 #Chilterns #Transport
Eels swim 3000 miles from their birthplace in the Sargasso Sea, near the Gulf of Mexico. If government decide to put a new runway & associated infrastructure over FIVE rivers how will #Eels & migratory fish get to the #Chilterns #Herts #Bucks & #London?
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Did you know #Heathrow expansion means building over FIVE rivers, severing links between the internationally rare #chalkstreams of the #Chilterns and the Thames for fish and otters?
December 2025 desktop calendar now available to download
#Oxford #StJohnsCollege #Christmas
#Cotswolds #Broadway #Cotswoldvillage
#ChannelIslands #CastleCornet #dusk
#Chilterns #Mapledurham #RiverThames #sunrise #mistymorning #reflections
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The ruined St James' church of Bix Bottom, as seen from the track from Freedom Woods in The #Chilterns
