Hello and welcome to my July Newsletter. Well, it was the longest day last week and we've been joking that the nights must now be pulling in. A scary thought, particularly as the weather is more like October than July at the moment. My sister, Gill, came to stay...
The Mazzard Tree
My April 2022 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to my April Newsletter. I always thought the month of March was supposed to come in like a lion and go out like a lamb, but it seems to have been the opposite this year. We had some lovely warm sunny weather in the middle of the month but...
My March 2022 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to my March Newsletter My garden is looking lovely at the moment. The snowdrops are past their best but they have been replaced with masses of crocuses and small Tete a Tete daffodils. Mind you, like many people, we did take quite a...
Happy New Year: My January 2022 Newsletter
Hello and a Happy New Year! I hope you all had a good Christmas and New Year? My Christmas was a little mixed - some parts good and some not so much. We were going to swap presents with Stuart, my eldest son, and his wife, Laura, on Christmas Eve, but they had become...
My December 2021 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to my December newsletter. Well, it won't be long now until Christmas! Fingers crossed the new covid variant doesn't upset everyone's plans. I'm feeling pretty organised at the moment. It was a relief to get my third book published and be able to...
A Visit to Avebury and a Haunted Inn
In the absence of a holiday abroad this year we spent a weekend in Marlborough, a pleasant little town situated in the picturesque rural northeast of Wiltshire. It has a wide High Street, lined on both sides with characterful old buildings, a good variety of shops,...
A Circular Walk from Landkey to Birch via Harford, East Bradninch and Gunn
This is a walk my husband and I discovered during the Coronavirus lockdown and it has now become one of our favourites. I’m ashamed to admit that although I was born in Landkey and have lived here for many years I did not know of this walk until last year. There...
My December 2020 Newsletter
A December Newsletter providing information about the books and blogs of Marcia Clayton