Paul Johnson

A winter’s day walk in the Quantocks

A winter’s day walk in the Quantocks

issue 04 February 2006

I shall remember Saturday 20 January 2006. What it was like elsewhere I do not know, but in west Somerset it was the perfect winter’s day. A great surge of happiness ran through me as I set off for my walk in the hills and coombs. It had been sunny the afternoon before but blustery.

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