As you head north west along the A82 just west of Bridge of Orchy the road swings round on itself and just before Rannoch Moor dramatically opens out you will see the Rannoch Boulder. It’s on the left as you go up the last bit of hill. It’s a big chunk of rock that has…
I try to get to Scotland most years as the walking is wonderful even if the weather can be difficult. I often go to Skye which is always a treat but it is sometimes good to do some winter walking, hopefully with snow and ice in good condition. This year I am meeting up with…
On my way to Scotland so I am breaking my journey with an overnight stop at our club’s cottage at Patterdale in the Lake District. On the way I took the Kirkstone Pass between Windermere and Patterdale. Descending from the pass towards Brothers Water I stopped to enjoy the view and took this. 07 March…
Came across this. It is almost surreal, a tree had barbed wire wrapped round it and over the years has grown and grown so that now the wire is in the tree itself. Sad really that no one saw what was going on and cleared the wire but the tree seems to be doing OK.…
It is The Independent Bath Literary Festival time, mind you there’s always some festival or other going on in Bath. Last night I went to see the legendary Count Arthur Strong which is always a treat and tonight Mrs Sixwheeler and I are going to see the cookery writer Claudia Roden who has long been…
As I’m going out tonight I will do today’s picture rather earlier than usual. Today has been a day of glorious Spring like sunshine and as I have been occupying myself with first Gloucester Cathedral then Sherborne Abbey I thought that I should also include our local and glorious Bath Abbey. So here it is.…
On the recommendation of our friends at edwardsdorsetdays we visited the Dorset town of Sherborne. This is about fifty miles from us and for about forty of those we drove through, well, nowhere at all. This corner of the West Country really is empty apart from farms and villages that you pass through and would…
Today has been one of the highlights of the year in Bath as it saw the annual running of the Bath Half Marathon. According to BBC Points West there were over eleven thousand starters, thirty thousand spectators and the sum raised for charities exceeded two and a half million pounds. All this is very good…
Following the third most ugly building in Bath, here is part of our favourite Bath feature, The Circus. Whenever Bath is mentioned in the media it is usually accompanied by a picture of Royal Crescent and there’s no getting away from it, it is impressive. However we prefer The Circus which is less than five…
I am aware that in this blog I have banged on a lot about the Beautiful City of Bath, and why not because it is certainly beautiful. Obviously not everything in Bath is completely beautiful and to prove that point here is a picture of Kingsmead House which was recently voted the third ugliest building…
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