Ah, dear readers how time flies! So many months and so few blogs. Perhaps that's because I have not set foot on rock since my last adventure, well that's not strictly true - I have set foot on rock, but not in a traditional climbing sense ( Read more... )

I wrote this off the cuff on another website but the Muse was apparently with me so I thought I'd post it here too - and no I have not seen any interesting birds lately, OK I have but no new ones, only this morning the peregrines on the Courage Accounting Building on my way to work...anyway anyway...here goes - it's an elegy to Wintour's Leap, a ( Read more... )

Sitting in front of the Lego station at 7.00 a.m. yesterday morning inspiration struck. I was going to build a 'Halloween House'! A couple of days later and here it is. Sadly the Zombie Policeman who should have been coming out of the barred door is hors de combat somewhere (last seen being held by Toby so he could be anywhere, though Toby ( Read more... )

Wow this blog is really hotting up with bird sightings on it ( Read more... )

Or at least I can't think what else it was - chasing a smaller bird up the hedge at the end of my road. I have suspected that I've been buzzed by one before in the alley up the side of my house but this was a good sighting - for sure a bird of prey and not a kestrel/buzzard or red kite so I think I may be right. Will keep eyes peeled for further ( Read more... )

We've just got back from a few days on holiday in one of my favourite places in the world - the Gower (where else!). We had T's mum and dad with us for a couple of days and went for a walk up the valley leading to Three Cliffs Bay, a beautiful wetland landscape.


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“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows


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In the park in Keynsham there is a utility duct that runs over the river. On the side of the duct is a plaque which reads "Wansdyke Council". This confused me for years - normally we are Bath, or Bristol or Avon or something but I had never heard of Wansdyke so could not understand why it should be there. Now when Mum and Dad moved closer they ( Read more... )

Can we all guess what film I have been to see recently?

Also my first post of 2015. Crikey. I WILL keep this blog alive.


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I guess I should explain that photo below, which also gives me the opportunity to write an Obligatory Climbing Report (OCR) although these are becoming less frequent and obligatory than they used to be. The reason for this is two fold - one fairly simply I do not get out climbing as much as I used to do and if I do manage to get out climbing then ( Read more... )