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

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

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

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

At last! An athlete in the family.

I’ve posted about this canal a few times over the years, and how work by enthusiastic volunteers is restoring the canal and river navigation from a muddy ditch to today’s near-completion. Big advances are being made along the area we … Continue reading →

We spotted this photo in a paint shop in Avonmouth. It shows “knocking off” time in Avonmouth Docks in the nineteen-thirties, and the workers on the way home (past where the paint shop now is). We were struck by the … Continue reading →

One of us is four.

Fine weather means the campervan’s flexing its muscles. We ended up in Monmouth for lunch, home via Ross on Wye and Gloucester.