First post from Tales from under Black Hill

You have arrived at our site which will attempt to see the world from a slightly remote location. Free from the daily grind of commuting through traffic jams, by train (regularly delayed or cancelled) and free of the pressures of the work place, Tales from under the Black Hill will cover a variety topics. These will include commentaries on rural life and the political and environmental issues in the wider world that can be observed from a hillside location. Perhaps, of more importance, and put bluntly, what someone, at one step removed from urban England’ thinks of what is going on out there, down there and around the world.

As a failed hippy and an inheritor of the ‘Good Life’ approach of the nineteen seventies you can expect a bit of ‘make do and mend’, brushes with the new bureaucracy of the Blair years and a great deal of reasoned sounding off. That’s if there is enough personal energy available to turn the computer on and enough money in the bank to pay for the energy from the national grid. Oh, and by the way, there might be time to let you know how the banjo playing is coming along after forty years of neglecting that noble art.