Writing For Joy

We married at St John's, Beeston and spent a short honeymoon at the Alyson Hotel, Buxton, Derbyshire. That was in 1953. In those days th...

Chatsworth — Country Park, Family Playground! We arrived at Chatsworth on Saturday to find the car parks already filling up and whole f...

We have been on a holiday to Derbyshire. We enjoy walking the footpaths along dales, by rivers, in woods and in gardens — such as that of Ch...

We have been away on a caravan holiday. Gentle walks with beautiful scenery. Derbyshire is a great county with considerable history too. Lin...

A walk along Cromford Canal. Winter has gone and spring has arrived but it is obvious that everything is behind within the natural world. Ev...

November when it's raining is not a particularly good time to be walking in Derbyshire, but WOW what rainbows we managed to capture. I g...

We have just returned from an eight day break in Derbyshire. We had rain most of the time but clear spells when we managed some walking — th...

Derbyshire has many miles of old railway tracks, which are now wonderful places to walk and to cycle on. During the last week we walked alon...