Here’s a few shots from last week. There's a bit of a theme... Continue reading

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I don’t often return to a location two weeks in a row, but sometimes it’s to show you something that’s too good to miss, so here we are back at Ickford. Continue reading

Tales From The Edge This is an occasional series where I go to the edge of North Bucks and show you what I've found. Inside/outside the church. Right on the bottom left hand edge of the North bucks area is the village of Ickford. You can walk half a mile... Continue reading

There’s quite a few ceremonies every year at the Peace Pagoda and Buddhist temple in Milton Keynes. A few weeks ago I was at this year’s Peace Pagoda Ceremony. Continue reading

Near the entrance to the new theatre in Aylesbury is a statue of Ronnie Barker, as he looked when he played the prisoner Fletcher in the TV series Porridge. Continue reading

I’ve been riding motorcycles since the mid 70s, but in all those years I’ve never owned a British bike. It’s time I did. Continue reading

As a schoolboy, I often went to the post office in Winslow High Street with my Mum. It’s been closed for years now, but the brass letter box in the wall of the old post office is nice and shiny. What’s going on? Continue reading

It’s not widely advertised, but on one Sunday each June Horsefair Green in Stony Stratford is closed to vehicles, a stage is erected, and Folk on the Green begins. Continue reading

Last week the North Bucks Wanderer had its first birthday, so in celebration of this milestone, I’ve selected some of the highlights from the last twelve months. There’s a link to each post. Enjoy! Continue reading

Here’s some of the highlights from last week’s 21st Stony Live festival. It was eight days of live events. Continue reading

The North Bucks Wanderer is one year old this week! Continue reading

The Tibetan flag was due to be raised at the Buddhist temple at Willen in Milton Keynes. It’s a protest event, because the flag can’t be raised in Chinese occupied Tibet. I went to see what was happening. Continue reading

Stony Stratford’s annual music event, Stony Live, starts on Saturday 1st June and runs all week until Sunday 9th. Continue reading

This seventy year old steam locomotive came through Milton Keynes on the West Coast Main Line last Friday Continue reading

I'm having to deal with family matters at the moment, so there will be no post this week. I hope to be back on schedule next Thursday. Continue reading

Just up the stairs from Milton Keynes Hospital’s old main entrance is their radio studio. I was there in the studio last week, to appear on the Tuesday Magazine programme with their presenter John Newton. Continue reading

It was Saint George’s Day. I had already visited two woods that day, this was the third and last. Continue reading

One of the most English of flowers is the bluebell, and what better day for me to go to see them than Saint George’s Day? Continue reading

Monday 16th April. Cloudy at first, wet later. I drove up to Shenley Wood in Milton Keynes, to take photos for a blog post. I reached the car park just as the rain started. I took a few photos through the windscreen, taking my time and hoping that the rain would stop. It didn’t. I’ll have to go back. The car park is on Merlewood Drive, of the V2, Tattenhoe Street. Pentax K3, 16-50mm lens. Continue reading

Right on the edge of Bucks, on a wooded hilltop, is Danesborough Hill Fort. It’s only a few miles from my house but I had never been there, so I went to have a look. It was well worth the visit. Continue reading

I’d been out on the bike. Now it was late afternoon, and I had other things to see some miles away; the sun was dropping in the sky. My destination was Hillesden, to see the Cathedral in the Fields. Continue reading

If you’ve read last week’s post you’ll know I visited Aylesbury a couple of weekends ago. I was there to see the first anniversary of the unveiling of the statue of David Bowie. But there are other things to see. Continue reading

Why is there a sculpture of David Bowie, in Aylesbury under the archway of the old Corn Exchange at the bottom corner of the Market Square? Continue reading