Local stories, walks, seasonal notes, and what is on around Bibury and the wider Cotswolds, written from the cottages.
Bibury does not do Christmas loudly. There is no high street to dress up, no big switch-on, no market filling the green.…
4 min readNovember is the month I keep to myself a little. The day-trippers thin out once the leaves go over, the coach park…
5 min readSome October afternoons the rain sets in and there is no arguing with it. The river goes the colour of stewed tea,…
4 min readThe first full week of October is usually when it comes good. The trees along the Coln start to turn, the cottage…
4 min readThe thing that makes Rosemary Cottage work for an autumn break is the fire. Not a wood-burner behind glass, but an open…
4 min readBy the second week of September the light has changed. It comes in lower and warmer, and on a clear morning it…
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