A charming aspect of Bath is that many of the older streets have the street name incised into the wall of the buildings at the road end rather than having a name plate. Over time many have suffered from pollution that has attacked the lettering but I’m pleased to say that there is a programmer…
Bath Folk Festival 2014 If you live in Bath it does sometimes seem as if there is a different festival every week, but who’s complaining we came to live here partly because there is a lot of cultural activity. This week it’s Folk Festival week. Last night Mrs Sixwheeler and I went to see the…
Neighborhood Horticulture. Just along from us is Weston Park where the local residents have raised money for tree planting and other projects. One such is a small memorial garden to commemorate the centenary this year of the outbreak of World War One. Pupils from the local junior school have helped with the planting. This week…
Wild Plums. I’m not a dedicated forager as I can’t be bothered with little bits of salad leaves and I don’t know enough about fungi. Some things however I simply can’t resist and we both love wild plums or ‘cherry plums’ as we used to call them. It breaks my heart to see them rotting…
Buskers, Bath, Rumba de Bodas
Boules! Mrs Sixwheeler and I have been looking for something that we could do together and she came up with Boules. We used to play a bit years ago when on family holidays in France and we have a couple of sets of boules, so today we gave it a go. Apparently Bath had two…
Cattle again I’m afraid. I said to the farmer “Aren’t those cattle Gloucester’s?” “Yes” he replied “they’re pedigree Gloucester’s”. And very lovely they are too, a rare breed now but only the milk from Gloucesters can be used in the making of both Single Gloucester and Double Gloucester cheeses; both of which are delicious. They…
Yesterday I wrote about our day in the Cotswolds. One thing the area is famous for is the buildings made from Cotswold stone, this is an Oolitic limestone laid down during the Jurassic period. The stone varies in colour throughout the region, here in Bath the stone is quite pale but the most beautiful, and…
Today we have spent the day in the Cotswolds and I have an interesting piece of history to share with you. We visited the village of Stanton which must be one of the most photographed in England, it seems to be a permanent fixture on scenic calendars. I first visited the village back in my…
In between the showers and downpours the sky clears and gives us a quintessentially English summer landscape. 2 August 2014
The Sixwheeler Chronicles 