Apart from Dad, everyone else was a stranger. Twelve of us, including our guide, were sat in a decommissioned bus. It shakingly climbed the corkscrew road (‘road’ being a generous word), sides almost over the edge, groaning with every gear change up the Honnister slate mine. Slate slopes plummeted away as the main road shrank. There were … Continue reading The Iron Way
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The Man on the Tor
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” ―Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles It was the year I fell in love with Sherlock Holmes. My The Complete Stories of---my red bible---lay in the backseat of my dad’s Mercedes. We left the long shadows of the … Continue reading The Man on the Tor