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Glastonbury Town by Bicycle

A Guide to Cyclist Friendly Glastonbury

The area around Glastonbury has a lot to offer the two wheeled traveller, whether you’re a seasoned cyclist or contemplating getting back on the saddle for the first time in decades. In my opinion there isn’t a better way to enjoy the local area than from a bike, you see more, discover more, get fitter and you are making the most sustainable travel choice there is. It’s not surprising that Glastonbury already attracts touring cyclists, we’re on EV1 – t...

Queen of Cups Restaurant and Freehouse

I’m delighted about the opening of ‘Queen of Cups’, Glastonbury’s newest restaurant and freehouse. It’s a fun, fresh and female-led approach to dining and drinking in Glastonbury that I’m confident will be very popular.

New Name, New Menu, New Look

Chef Ayesha has moved to Glastonbury from London where she cheffed for six years, to partner with old friend Mary-Liz, owner of Abbot’s Leigh B&B. Their new venture sees them taking on the lease of Hawthorns in Northload Street. Over the p...

Benedict Street Kitchen

Fine Food and Fantastic Coffee

Benedict Street Kitchen is an exciting addition to Glastonbury’s growing good food scene. It’s a little way out of the Town Centre, a couple of minutes walk down Benedict Street, in a beautiful old building that was once the Town’s Courthouse. 

I recently met with owner Lucy Wyatt, who asked me to share the story of this new eatery with you. She tells me it all started out with a family farm in Suffolk, where she decided on the principles on which BSK is...

Glastonbury Book News

I’ve got some exciting news, I’ve published a book of photographs and also made book ‘Normal For Glastonbury’ available worldwide. It’s really exciting to know that my writing and photographs about this wonderful town can now reach an even bigger audience, plus when you buy my books it supports me to carry on writing and photographing!

Crap Views of the Tor – The Postcard Book – now availableThe photo that started it all

I’ve been a keen photographer since I got my first ‘proper’ cam...

Glastonbury Town Takes Vegan Pledge

Glastonbury Town has made the commitment to go fully Vegan by 2023

Glastonbury Town is to be the first place in Britain to make a radical new commitment to the health of its residents, visitors and the environment. The Town has signed the Vegan Town Pledge, intending to go fully vegan by Spring 2023. Measures are to be introduced gradually from September of this year, to wean the town off meat products and onto far more nutritious alternatives. 

Somerset’s Environmental Health Officers, w...

‘People of the Tor’, the Art World and a bloke called Dave

An interview with Glastonbury based writer Guy Kennaway on The Accidental Collector, his book about a penniless Glastonbury hippy who gets mistaken for a billionaire art collector. 

I have a, perhaps unlikely, friendship with writer Guy Kennaway who has just published his latest comic novel ‘The Accidental Collector’. In this caper, the action swings from the ski resort hangouts of super wealthy Modern Art collectors in Switzerland, to the caravan home of a penniless hippy, on a yard tucked ...

Self-Publishing My Glastonbury Book

Lockdown gave me the excuse, and the push, to publish the book of ‘Normal For Glastonbury’

I’ve had quite a few people ask me about the process of putting together and publishing the book, I’m hoping that with this article I might encourage other first time writers to have a go. Self-publishing is a great adventure! I did a lot of research on equipment and suppliers, I’ve put some links in to the ones I decided on here too, they may not be the best for your purposes, but they have worked fo...

Crap Views of the Tor

Of all the stuff I post on the Normal For Glastonbury Facebook page, my ‘Crap Views of the Tor’ series has been the most surprising success. In fact it seems that people love the idea so much they’ve been submitting their own to the page. Here are a few of my favourites.

So Many Levels of Crapness

Some people really push the envelope when it comes to getting a crap shot. This one of Dee’s taken from a moving car has got it all – motion blur, greasy windscreen, bollards, even some fingert...

Ripples of Kindness

Glastonbury Community Volunteers – providing support during lockdown and beyond

At the start of the Coronavirus pandemic I felt this was a great opportunity for the Glastonbury community to start initiatives that helped us all get through this crisis together. A chance to act as a positive example to other towns on how grass roots community organisations might work to provide services on a local level. After all, we have a thriving, friendly, diverse community composed of people with a vast ...

The Fog of Avalon

Since the New Year of 2021, I’ve been reminiscing almost fondly about the first lockdown in March and April of 2020. It was an unseasonably warm and sunny Spring, the days were lengthening, all that time with nothing much to do but walk the lanes round the Tor, listening to the birdsong, enjoying the blue skies and the tameness of the wildlife. In contrast, ‘Lockdown 3’, in wet and cold January, does not make for such pleasant outdoor exercise experiences.

It was getting hard to coax myself...