Tag: Victorians

• Perthshire for Christmas

  

  We’ve taken off a bit early for the Christmas holidays; we’re spending it in the very lovely Perthshire. Here are a couple of pics from the drive today. We just managed to squish everything into the Co-Wheels car, including Creeper. There was a dusting of snow today which made the landscape look beautiful. Perthshire is […]

  Rachel M

  December 21, 2016

  Journal, Travel

  Armitage Shanks, Christmas, Perthshire, photos, records, Scotland, snow, toilet, Victorians, winter

• Hypocrites, climate change, tragedies and solutions

  I’ve just had an amazing morning on twitter. I woke up to a tweet from someone basically saying that because I don’t pay the annual TV licence fee in the UK then I probably don’t have the right to complain about their service. So I jovially replied that I’ll be back in the UK come […]

  Rachel M

  March 2, 2014

  Climate change, Travel

  agw, Climate change, Climate science, flying, planes, Victorians

• Leicester

  We went to Leicester for the weekend. Leicester, I have learned, has something of a bad reputation in the UK. When I tried to find out why this is the case, it is simply that there is a large immigrant population there. This is certainly true but I did not feel unsafe there, the people […]

  Rachel M

  September 30, 2013

  Travel

  Leicester, photos, Sheffield, train, trains, travel, traveling, Victorians, York