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Normally, a short-cut across the pitch and putt course at Ashton Court requires concentration on wayward golf balls, but thanks to the virus, no golf! With our eyes caste downwards we spotted this Scarlet Waxcap mushroom. Actually, I spotted it, … Continue reading →

Back in May, I noted the course of the railway which, it is planned, will in a year or two be re-opened to link Portishead with Bristol. The track has been completely impenetrable but someone has been busy in the … Continue reading →

Last chance before Lockdown 2.0. We met Wendy, Graham and Emma at Purton, for a walk along the Sharpness canal. Lunch later at Sharpness. Fabulous weather. And we spoke, briefly, to Helen Rome, a fellow hasher in the ‘nineties, here … Continue reading →

We walked from Ham Green, down the hill to the River Avon, then along the riverbank passing the Roman settlement of Abonae on the opposite (north) side, more recently know as Sea Mills. The river Trym flows into the Avon … Continue reading →

Sally spotted this little gem of street art, actually on rocks above the beach at Weston-super-Mare. It’s about ten inches high and the work of JPS, otherwise known as Jamie Scanlon.

A sculpture, Ruth, in AWT’s Bennett’s Patch nature reserve, by the Portway alongside the Avon Gorge. The sculpture commemorates the role women played in the second world war. It was created with habitats for birds, bats, invertebrates and amphibians.

This week’s sunniest day looked like being … WEDNESDAY! So we parked by Cam Peak, north-east of Dursley in Gloucestershire, and walked through the town and up to Stinchcombe Hill following a loop in the Cotswold Way around Stinchcombe Golf … Continue reading →