Britain’s Favourite Market 2023
Shrewsbury Market Hall has been voted Britain’s Favourite Market 2023. They previously won this award in 2018. Shrewsbury Market is run by Shropshire Council and Shrewsbury Town Council and is open five days a week from 8am until 4pm. There are over 60 independents traders to explore. Providing vibrant hand crafted delights and an eclectic […]
Shropshire Day 2023
Did you know the 23rd February is Shropshire Day? No, I didn’t until last year. It is also St Milburga Feast Day. She died on this day in seven something or other. She was the second Abbess of, what was then, Wenlock Abbey. Shropshire Day is a day for celebrating everything that is wonderful about […]
The River Onny
The River Onny flows through the meadows surrounding Craven Arms. It’s source is at White Grit in the Shropshire Hills. It has two branches the East and the West Onny which converge at Eaton east of Lydham. The Eastern course rises near Bridges. It is a short river of about 25miles in length, it merges […]
Wistanstow Foot Bridge Part Two
Wistanstow Foot Bridge opened on January 27th 2023. I walked that way with a friend a couple of days before it opened. It was meant to be open in December 2022 and we had hoped to use the bridge and enjoy the views. Finally on 1st February 2023 we achieved our walk using the foot […]
Wistanstow Foot Bridge
On the 27th of January a new bridge over the Railway was opened. It is just north of Craven Arms in the parish of Wistanstow, but is nearer to Craven Arms. It can be seen, if you don’t want to walk to it, from Craven Arms Station. I think it is beautiful and when I […]
Foggy Blog
We have had some foggy days and I have put together two Foggy Blogs about a walk and a drive. This Foggy Blog is about a walk on Halford Meadow. The moisture in the air was heavy as Dillie and I walked onto Halford Meadow. We entered about mid way down and you couldn’t see […]
Hacked
Some of you will be aware that my e-mail account was hacked. I apologise if you ended up getting an unsolicited email from me. To let you know I DO NOT have an aol e-mail account. Do not contact it, it is not me. They redirected replies to another account that looked like it was […]
Happy New Year 2023
Happy New Year to All our Customer’s. We hope you had a good Christmas as well. We are sorry this is all a bit late, life was a bit of a whirl before Christmas. Every time I thought I had a clear day it whirled out of control, but hey that’s life. We wish you […]
Increase in our Rates
We have decided to increase our rates. We have thought long and hard about it. We have never put our high season prices up in ten years of business. We have tweaked the other price levels but never by much. We have no choice, heating costs have tripled and electric is through the roof. We […]
Blackbird Heaven
I watched Blue Tits and Great Tits flitting around the fruit trees in our garden. They find something interesting to eat although to me there appears to be little there. On taking a closer look I could also see there were several blackbirds, male and female flying in and out of the Holly Bush. They […]