Martin's Mag.

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.

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.

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.