Martin's Mag.

We cycled part of the Tarka Trail a month ago, but we haven’t trained Lucy to ride a bike yet, so this time we walked, with her, a 13 mile section from north of Great Torrington to Meeth.

Devon coast-to-coast path north of Meeth.

And, of course…

1. Find a dog;
2. Add to water;
3. Inhale.

On Kilve Beach, Somerset.

It’s been nearly six years since our last dog, the globe-trotting Archie, died. We have adopted a Welsh Collie, Lucy, who is about seven and already doing her best to wear us out! We’re still trying to get used to those huge ears, which I’m sure get bigger each day. There’ll be many more pictures, I expect, in future months. And years, we hope.

Good old Charles Saachi. It really is a fabulous gallery. And it’s free, which suits we poor pensioners (saves money for a decent bottle of wine with lunch!)

Two pictures of Sally and me.

Three views of the same work:

Plus some others:

The Design Museum moved to its new home in Kensington last year.

This bicycle was not part of the museum, but it could have been!

The Wildlife Trust volunteers are having a break from Walton Common and instead we’ll be clearing paths and repairing steps and bridges at Prior’s Wood, which is near the Tyntesfield estate, north of Wraxall. We had a stroll around the area today to assess the extent of our tasks.

This picture taken a week or so later:

The Tarka Trail is one of the country’s longest continuous traffic-free walking and cycling paths, and forms part of the Devon Coast to Coast Cycle Route. We cycled part of it, around the River Taw estuary near Bideford.

The Taw estuary, Devon.

Our first visit to W&G’s dockside flat in Gloucester. Took this picture on the way back to the car park.

Setting a run for the Bristol Hash House Harrier (“Gentle Exercise for the Slightly Drunk”), I noticed this rare visitor in a private carpark at the east end of Shirehampton High Street. Although I’ve seen them abroad before, this was the first Trabant (for that’s what it is) I’ve spotted in the UK. It looked as if the journey from Poland was not without incident.