Monthly Archives: November 2016

These “whales” were last seen at the Bristol Harbour Festival, 2015. They are now further down the River Avon at a new Avon Wildlife Reserve site, alongside the Portway.

On a damp day on Walton Common we needed all the help we could get to start the bonfire:

We managed to get “the best of the day”, as our parents would have said (i.e. the part of the day when it wasn’t actually raining), and walk from Cooper’s Hill in The Cotswolds, where the annual cheese-rolling competition is held … Continue reading →

On 1 July 1916 19,240 British Empire servicemen were killed on the first day of the battle of The Somme. By the end of the battle on 18 November 1916 – one hundred years ago today – 127,751 were dead … Continue reading →

Walking from Ladye Bay, north of Clevedon.

My chum Sweaty (many of my friends have bizarre and/or unflattering nicknames, although in Sweaty’s case, entirely justified) set a run on Sunday starting/ending in Gloucester Road, Bristol, and incorporating St Andrews, St Werburghs, Fairfield School, Muller Road, Stoke Park … Continue reading →

Bristol, near the Create Centre, Cumberland flyover.