outdoors

Leigh Leopards Academy Charity Bike Ride

As some will know myself and my amazing fiancee Michelle are huge supporters of the Leigh Leopards academy, raising money to support our local club academy in bringing through and securing the top local talent for the future of our club, we are part of a commitee that strives to…

Jun 15, 2026

Community, Day out, Exploring, Life, Personal, Sport, Uncategorized

bikes, blog, care, Community, consideration, cycling, exercise, friends, goodtimes, leighleopards, local, outdoors, powerful, Rugby, socialising, wellbeing
Discovery Cove VIPs For The Day

Discovery Cove, Orlando, Florida, is a truly amazing incredible place to visit! From simple visits, to enjoy the reefs and lazy river, not to mention all you can eat and drink included in your package, to day bed loungers, to the more luxurious VIP Cabana’s We checked in at the…

Aug 16, 2024

Day out, Exploring, family, Life, Uncategorized

blog-tour, children, Cultural, education, family, familytime, friends, goodtimes, greatness, imagination, intrigue, outdoors, socialising
It’s Just a New York City Subway Grate Right?

If your anything at all like me, I like nothing more than strolling around the hustle and bustle of New York City, up and down the avenue’s across the city from street to street, weaving through the multitude of parks and small Green spaces, it’s simply heaven to me. But…

May 4, 2024

Community, Day out, Exploring, family, history, Life, New York, Personal, Uncategorized

Central Park, Cultural, Empire State Building, film, gentlemen prefer blondes, history, imagination, Manhattan, marilyn monroe, New York, newyorknewyork, NYC, outdoors, powerful, some like it hot, stories, story, storytelling, writing
Just One Hour in Pennington, Leigh.

As I sit in the spring sunshine in my garden, in the heart of Pennington, I’m amazed at what I saw in “just one hour.” It’s quite relaxing apart from the rumbles of vehicles driving up and down the A580 East Lancs Road, aircraft departing Manchester Airport flying overhead, joining…

May 9, 2023

Community, family, Life, Personal, Uncategorized

Admire, consideration, grief, grieving, heritage, Leigh, listening, outdoors, respect, wellbeing
Restoration of weathered garden ornaments

I wrote a short piece on 05th June 2022 called “Restoration of an old fountain” just to back track the purpose of the story. Sadly my fiancée lost her mother Susan Dickens in January 2022, Susan left us on her 67th birthday, the shock has been unmeasurable to us all…

Jul 22, 2022

family, funeral, Life, Personal, Uncategorized

Admire, caring, family, grief, honour, imagination, Leigh, outdoors, parents, powerful, Rememberence, respect
Pennington our own little Manor

How much do you really know about our area of Pennington? now I knew we had a long history dating back many centuries, I know our area was very prominent in the region, but I didn’t know our full history, the property I live in is probably somewhere in the…

Jul 17, 2022

Community, history, Life, Personal, Uncategorized

Cultural, heritage, history, imagination, intrigue, ourhistory, outdoors, society, story, village
Restoration of an old fountain

As work commenced on the memorial garden that I’m creating for my partners mother, Susan Dickens who sadly left us on her 67th birthday, January 10th 2022 leaving us with a lasting void. So within the grounds of our cottage was this 25 year old fountain looking very bedraggled and…

Jun 5, 2022

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family, grief, imagination, outdoors
My Bike Ride by James Sargent (11 yrs old)

Yesterday on the 18/02/2021 I went on one of my longest and hardest bike rides yet. The bike ride was 30 kilometres long! This is how I was, on my bike ride! While I was waiting for my football friend to come round so we could go out on a…

Feb 19, 2021

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bikes, cycling, exercise, friends, outdoors