Monthly Archives: October 2014

More cycling, this time along the northern side of the Severn estuary, or is it the Bristol Channel? We cycled as far as the Transporter Bridge at Newport (built 1902), which gave me the opportunity to take yet more pictures of … Continue reading →

Remember steam trains? They were dirty, slow and huge contributors to the greenhouse effect. But they were spectacular and much-loved, and, to be fair, no-one had heard of the greenhouse effect in the ‘fifties and ‘sixties. Some of the railway lines … Continue reading →

The Kennet and Avon canal links the two rivers in it’s name, and, at its northern end, the Thames. We cycled part of the tow path recently after visiting the two tunnels near Bath. Today, we cycled from the Dundas … Continue reading →

We got up early and watched The Severn Bore at Epney, in Gloucestershire. Then, while the bore went around a loop in the river, we drove on to Stonebench and watched it go past again. A man let us watch … Continue reading →

Our garden shed is a big seat with a cupboard attached, and there’s just enough room to store some garden tools and an electric shredder, which I keep meaning to put on ebay as it’s never used. However, a man … Continue reading →

South of the city of Bath is a cycle route which incorporates two former railway tunnels. We’ve cycled through them before (when I didn’t take a camera) but we went again a few days ago with two friends. Both tunnels … Continue reading →