Martin's Mag.

A regular visitor to Avonmouth Docks, up the Severn Estuary, passes suburban Portishead.

Snowdrop Valley is a privately owned remote valley in a hidden part of Exmoor close to Wheddon Cross.

Well, the English version. Miles attended the pancake-tossing and red wine drinking that has become our Shrove Tuesday family tradition. The kitchen floor will never be the same. All in preparation for Lent, when we give it up. Pancakes, that is, probably not the wine.

This is an art work in the former control room of a central-Bristol road bridge. More HERE.

“An Installation to celebrate some of Bristol’s most maligned residents in a more positive light.

Seagulls are a part of Bristol’s fabric, love them or loathe them, these prehistoric-looking creatures stalk the centre regally strutting about and eating rubbish.

Always confident, usually a bit ridiculous, possibly a bit thick. Keep your chips under wraps and enjoy them [the gulls, not your chips – Ed.] as they take off in flight.”

An art work by Esther Mars.

#gullsgullsgulls

A corner of the garden pond. The damp weather brings the frogs out. We counted at least twenty, not including those below the surface.

Purdown, a large area of land near the M32 motorway north of Bristol, is dominated by the yellow Dower House, built in 1563 as a private stately home, for a long time a hospital and now converted to private flats.