Sand Point in Somerset is the peninsula stretching out from Middle Hope, an 84-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest. More HERE.
Waterlogged animal trough with Woodspring Priory behind.
Somerset sky above sheep.
Somerset sky with vapour trail.
Somerset sky looking south over Sand Bay.
Sally with trig post on Sand Point.
Pictures taken with Samsung Galaxy mobile phone.
Mells is a very pretty village in Somerset with a history dating back to Henry VIII and earlier and is where the Little Jack Horner nursery rhyme started. The place revolved around the Horner family for centuries and the church has the graves of many famous people, including Siegfried Sassoon. Edwin Lutyens designed many gardens, memorials and buildings in the area. There was also, until the early 20th century thriving coal and iron mines and a quarry. From the village, we walked along the river, the Mells Stream, which was quite full and the banks muddy in places, past some interesting Victorian industrial archeology.
When I lived in Bath, many years ago, some of the older residents lauded the name of one Frank Greenhalgh (apparently pronounced Greenhouse) who, as City Civil Engineer, had devised a system of weir and sluices on the River Avon which saved them from frequent flooding. It has been very wet recently and the river is high. However, by opening this massive sluice gate near Pulteney Bridge, citizens downstream have not had to take to their rowing boats as they did previously.
An exceptionally mild December has now turned to an averagely-cold January and all the leaves are at last off the trees. A chance to take a new photo for the header to this blog. This is our road. The same photo processed with different cropping and digital colour filters.
We followed a walk around Bristol from Chris Bloor’s book of the same name (nice web site!).
We’re in that no-man’s land between Christmas and New Year. A walk at the seaside seems to be de rigueur.
And, being Weston, there was some Banksy-type grafitti:
A great weather forecast, which proved to be correct, so walked the nine or ten miles right around Portland Bill in Dorset.
A return visit primarily to see an exhibition of the celebrated war photographer, Don McCullin. A BBC report HERE. These pictures of the gardens.
Martin's Mag. 
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