Out and about in the UK with Ali and Hoover Page. Also known as Out With Hooves!
Hooves and I went for a dog walk in the woods on Buttersteep Hill in Ascot in February. It is a wonderfully wild and natural area that forms part of Swinley Forest, in Berkshire. It is perfect dog-walking territory: you are likely to see other dog walkers, the occasional runner, and if you are lucky you might see one of …
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Nearly 800 years ago, King John met with a group of barons on the water meadows at Runnymede. This was the site where he sealed the Magna Carta, seen by many as the symbolic first step on the road to modern democracy. Today Runnymede has several memorials to the ongoing struggle for liberty, and I have always …
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The Spectacular Deer Rut at Bushy Park in Hampton, London is a sight to behold so last Saturday Hoover and I thought we’d head towards The Big Smoke for a change to visit the Royal Park and see the spectacle for ourselves. London is an area we’d usually avoid as for us it conjures up images of …
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One early spring day Hoover and I decided to follow The Gruffalo Trail in Wendover Woods, Buckinghamshire. I love walking deep in ‘proper’ woods with Hooves because every now and then you realise you can’t hear a single car (not so easy in the Home Counties) and you can almost kid yourself that you are the only beings …
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I had a meeting with a client over in the Warfield direction this morning so Hooves and I used it as an excuse to explore some reasonably local yet unchartered territory, and so we headed for a dog walk in Warfield Woods, Hare Hatch. It was one of those early Autumn mornings that look most unappealing when you look …
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