Regular readers will know that on Saturday mornings we go to the Bath Farmers Market. This is an excellent institution and an reliable source of tasty food and ingredients. Sometimes there is entertainment too, we have even been known to have Morris Dancers (hoorah!) but today we had the local ukulele group. They are enthusiastic…
So. There I was, we’d spent the morning doing the weekly shopping. Sainsburys then our village greengrocer; lunch with the news on the TV. Me comfortably in my armchair contemplating a snooze when I thought that perhaps I should take Maude for a walk. Suddenly I felt as if I was being bombarded with laser…
One benefit of living in Bath is that you can obtain a Bath ‘Discovery Card’ from the council which gives you access to some local attractions either free or at reduced charge. Today we caught up with something we’ve been meaning to do for ages, we visited the Roman Baths which were one of the…
Mrs Sixwheeler comes from the Isles of Scilly, an archipelago of small islands about twenty five miles southwest of Lands End the bottom left hand corner of England. Her mother had a delightful old cottage there and in her garden grew Echiums. These plants originate in South Africa and can grow to about twelve feet…
Dry stone wall, near Bath. 1 April 2014
Bath is celebrated for the wonderful Georgian buildings throughout the city. One of the most beautiful is Pulteney Bridge that spans the River Avon. Like most of these buildings there is a public (or beautiful) side and a private (or plain) side. Actually some of these backsides are really quite tatty. Here is the private…
After a very nice Mothering Sunday lunch we all went to Dyrham Park where I took Maude for a walk in the woods. I spotted a log on the ground completely covered in bright green moss and on the moss was a ladybird. As you can see the little bugger moved when I took a…
Oh my goodness, here we are at Day 88 and I realise that I have not posted a picture of a door. I’m very fond of interesting doors and think that they make good pictures. Mrs Sixwheeler and I are off to France in May where I always seem to find good doors. I will…
On Sunday we celebrate “Mothering Sunday” when it is traditional to give to your mother a pretty card, some flowers or an attractive gift. This year Sainsburys have got the attractive gift thing nailed with this delicious looking pizza. 28 March 2014
Today I was in North Devon, a beautiful part of the world. At the top of the hill above the village of Kings Nympton I came across this,a beacon. Before the invention of telephones and the suchlike beacons were arranged in line of sight on high ground and fires lit in them to give warning…
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