A return to last year and our return to Sheffield (via Northumberland) in November 2019. Northumberland is one of my favourite places: open countryside for miles, historic towns – Alnwick, a charming old market town, grey-stoned, with its huge castle dominating – and a wild coast that varies between wide sandy beaches and rocky outcrops. […]
Tag: Sheffield
Two Tales of One City
(With acknowledgement to a far better writer than I for the title) My return to Sheffield, the place of my birth, a city I still refer to as my home city – even though I call Wellington home – is frustrating. It rains all day. We get wet packing the car; we get wet when […]
An Old Banger!
Our drive north is uneventful, always a good sign on England’s motorways, especially when part of the journey is on the M25. A big change since we lived here is that most of the motorways have sacrificed the emergency stopping hard shoulder for another driving lane. These multi-lane highways are always a bit of a […]
Tracy Annenberg 