By Katie Isham. Starting a new year is never for the fainthearted and 2026 has toed the line admirably. Sure, the blinding sunshine has helped raise spirits and recharge deleted energy reserves, but what the sunshine giveth, the Baltic temperatures taketh away. For those of us resolving to be...
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Suburban Safari: Hiltingbury Lakes
By Katie Isham. The days are growing darker by the moment, sometimes in many different ways. So it seems like the perfect time to search for the brightness. Light may be rarer as autumn shuffles along, but there are dazzling flashes to behold, if you know where to look. ...
Suburban Safari: Dowd’s Farm Park
By Katie Isham. Join our resident mild adventure writer on her latest exploration of Southampton and surrounding areas. When is a farm not a farm? When it’s a park instead. A charming suburban park right at the heart of Hedge End. Dowd’s Farm used to belong to Vera...
Suburban Safari: A tree is for life
By Katie Isham. There’s been so much tree exposure over the past few weeks. The shiny ones, the sparkly ones, the pink ones. But it’s all unearthed a deep-rooted need to commune with some more natural trees. Do you ever get the urge to walk among the trees? Drop...
Suburban Safari: Ladies Walk, Thornhill
By Katie Isham. Let’s go back in time a little, to the late 19th century. Thornhill Park was still an estate, but a sprawling parkland one of over 400 acres. It was initially formed by Michael Hoy, later passed to his widow, Elizabeth and then after her death, to...
Suburban Safari: Minstead Meanderings
Words and pictures by Katie Isham. Someday, we’ll go on a walk that doesn’t involve consecrated ground, but that day is not today my friends. This walk meanders through a graveyard, past some of the greatest oaks known to exist and possibly the greatest country gate vista ever viewed. ...
Suburban Safari: Hollybrook Cemetery
By Katie Isham. Cemeteries are for everyone. The dead shouldn’t get the monopoly. They are beautiful places and perfect for a wander or a sit. Two of my very favourite things. In the heart of Southampton, at the centre of a triangle made of the hospitals, the woods and...
Breast Walk Ever fundraising events in Hampshire this month
This month you can walk for life saving research into secondary spread breast cancer. You can choose from a Marathon, Half Marathon or 10K distance in the fundraising event for Against Breast Cancer. Follow in the footsteps of King Charles after his escape from Worcester in 1651 on “The...