It has almost become a ritual for us to go every Saturday morning to the Bath Farmers’ Market. This is believed to be the oldest farmers’ market in the country and is held at Green Park Station; this used to be a railway station but the lines are gone and it provides a wonderful space…
Last night we had been promised rain, high winds, floods and the first day’s play in the final cricket test match against Australia from Sydney. It certainly rained and blew but in our part of Bath (beautiful city of) but thankfully we are sheltered. I watched the news this morning and my thoughts go out…
After yesterday’s deluge it has finally stopped raining in the beautiful city of Bath. I’ve put away the plans I drew up for a very large boat and Mrs Sixwheeler has stopped rounding up pairs of animals. There’s a terrible noise coming from the badgers, foxes and owls in the garage but I’ll let them…
For 2014 I have set myself a target of trying to take and publish one photograph every day of the year. Some of these will be general, some will be amusing (I hope) and some will be relevant to the day or what we are doing that day. So to start things off I thought…
For some time now I have been thinking about this post. Mainly it has been brought on by two people I follow on Twitter, so thank you to @herdyshepherd1 and @AmandaOwen8; if any of you out there do Twitter and don’t follow these doughty shepherds, then you should. Their Tweets over the year, and a…
At school we had a teacher I didn’t like. Actually there were several I didn’t like but this one was a particular irritation; we just didn’t get on. At all. To me he was a pain in the backside and to him I was a severe irritation. He did, however, have one saving grace; a…
We’re home and it’s always great to be back home. As the title suggests the weather wasn’t great for the drive but it could have been worse, at least it wasn’t snowing! Mrs Sixwheeler very kindly offered to do some driving so got the first shift. We had arranged to visit old friends who have…
This is the first time that we have taken Maude with us to stay in an hotel. We take her out with us as much as possible but there are times when she needs to stay in our room. These are the times that she appreciates the view as Border Terriers are possibly the noisiest…
Check out @HistoryNeedsYou’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/HistoryNeedsYou/status/397514968171835392 Please note second from left – Robert Winter and extreme right Thomas Winter. I’m very proud of my ancestors.
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