Amelia's Blog

Can walking impact your life? It certainly can!

Before I lost my job, I was flying high. I was working as a Keeper of Art in a museum negotiating with the Tate Britain and the Arts...

Like all children from 3 to 83, I wanted snow at Christmas, but we did not get any. A few days before Christmas, however, we had a...

A baby redstart landed on me! I had the most amazing experience today; I was innocently photographing our huge dill plant; it's beyond...

A few months ago the administrators of the Facebook group the British in Austria asked me to write about the area where I now live in...

Over the past few years, I have grown to like blogging. I collect ideas and images, think about what may interest my readers, and jot my...

I was a curator working in a museum in South Devon in the UK; this was my dream job. Suddenly, the local council made my job redundant...

Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green,...

It’s the time of year when, like most of us, I feel reflective and perhaps even a little melancholy. Have I achieved all that I wanted to...