Spring

We’re fast approaching that time of year when work in the garden changes from encouragement to suppression.

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Novers Hill

Another of https://mikesbristolwalks.com/, this time in South Bristol. Novers Hill and Knowle West are thought of as sprawling housing estates, but there are plenty of redeeming features.

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Bishop’s Knoll Nature Reserve

A stroll around our old stamping ground, viewing the volunteer-maintained reserve (and the badgers sculpture by Julian Warren https://metalgnu.com/)

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The power of Grandmas

Two grandmothers working together is equivalent to much more than the sum of their parts.

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Hallen and Avonmouth

We’ve been following a few of https://mikesbristolwalks.com/ recently. Having lived in the Bristol area for so long, it’s easy to assume one knows it all. Mike (Wilberforce) concentrates on some less glamorous, less well-known, areas. This was an area thought by most people to be entirely industrialised.

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Ice creams at Ashton Court

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Malmesbury

Malmesbury is one of those pleasant small towns in which, one feels, Miss Marple would have felt very comfortable.

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Lilies

These lilies appear to be growing wild in a grassed area just down the hill from us.

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The wicked city

You have to be careful if you plan to secure your expensive bike in Bristol!

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Sixty years ago…

I passed my driving test in a Minor 1000. Not this one, as far as I know.

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