A Whiff of Wilderness
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A Whiff of Wilderness
Stories from the road, the countryside and occasionally the car park - observations, photographs and the odd bit of administrative nonsense from a slightly mad Englishman wandering about with a camera.
Welcome to Faversham - Do bring your binoculars
Published 13-09-26 · By Simon Burchett · Whiff of Wilderness
There are worse ways to spend a morning than sitting in a café in Faversham with a cup of tea and a bacon sandwich.
Welcome to Faversham, Then...
...In fact, I can recommend it.
Not necessarily f...
Santa Has Landed. It’s August.
Published 30-08-26 · By Simon Burchett · Whiff of Wilderness
There are certain moments in life when your brain takes a few seconds to process what your eyes are telling it.
This was one of them.
It was late August in Ashford. The sun was shining, it was a per...
I Bought the Faversham News. Then We Left Faversham.
Published 28-08-26 · By Simon Burchett · Whiff of Wilderness
I picked up the Faversham News this week expecting, perhaps rather optimistically, to read about Faversham.
And to be fair, it starts well.
There are Faversham stories.
There is a little bit of ...
Faversham News: Reporting Live From Somewhere Else
Published 27-08-26 · By Simon Burchett · Whiff of Wilderness
Now, I don’t know about you, but in the days before Facebook, Twitter — or X, as we must now apparently call it — we had newspapers.
Actual newspapers.
Made of paper.
And I’m of an age where I reme...