Martin's Mag.

Remote, very watery, flat part of Somerset, south of Burnham on Sea. The rivers flow into the river Parrett, which, in turn, flows into the Bristol Channel.

This new rustic bench in a quiet part of Prior’s Wood (another favourite for longer, local, dog walks) will be over-looking a spectacular display of bluebells in the Spring, and is in memory of Joan Cant, a Wildlife Trust volunteer.

A regular venue for dog walking, and just a few minutes from home.

Clevedon’s popular and, normally, attractive and modern marine lake is being drained and cleaned for the Winter. Necessary, but not its best look.

Always photogenic, even on a less-than-perfect day.

Rob’s latest mural for Network Rail’s initiative, Project Sprint.

This plant, also known as Traveller’s Joy, grows near streams and there is a fine display alongside the rhyne (old Somerset word for a drainage ditch) which runs through the town to the sea near the marina.

We revisited Crickhowell on the river Usk. A pretty and interesting town. Then picnic lunch in the hills to the west of the town and a circular walk, from about Aberhowy to Llangattock, following the Usk Valley Walkway and returning along the Monmouth and Brecon canal.

The M5 motorway, south of Bristol, was completed in the nineteen seventies. From a distance the section passing along the side of the Gordano Valley looks rather elegant and the dual levels of the separate carriageways are certainly a feat of engineering. But I’ve always felt sorry for the houses and farms which lost their idyllic location.