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Esme likes her new boots, as do I. Sadly, they don’t do them in a 45.

We spent a week in East Sussex, which brought back some distant memories of holidays long ago. Saint Thomas the Martyr Church, Winchelsea. The last resting place of Spike Milligan. The inscription, in Gaelic, reads “I told you I was … Continue reading →

Five miles north of Newport, in Monmouthshire, Caerleon seems to have escaped our attention, up until now. The local volunteer in the town’s museum confessed that this was something we shared with half of his town’s own population. It was, … Continue reading →

A great thing to do on a cold Winter’s day, specially if one is of a certain age and have a nostalgia for the ephemera of days-gone-by. The museum is up the road from us at Portbury. And it’s huge!

It looks the same, despite there being a different Prince of Wales.

I remember when 1984 seemed like an impossible time in the future. 2023! Where will it all end? We are now through the looking glass that is Christmas and New Year, and, although we had a nice time with family, … Continue reading →

Some weirdly-painted rocks by the cycle track on the south side of the Avon Gorge. You must be the judge of whether or not the shopping trolley is an integral part of the installation.

The Brean Bird Screen was build to prevent disturbance to an important high tide waterbird roost on the Severn Estuary Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), which is just beyond the screen. It is located at Brean Cross sluices, in … Continue reading →

A Victorian masterpiece, illuminated in the evening in the run-up to Christmas (what we used to call Advent). Even better after sharing a drink with Fi and Paul in Mary’s Bar.