22/01/2019 Cars, Bath and around Devizes

Saw this Morris Minot in the car park the other day.  Having owned one in recent years I still have a soft spot for this icon of the car world.

The Paragon in Bath.  My grandparents used to live here in the 1940's.  They actually lived in two of the houses here at different times but I cannot now remember the numbers.  

Love the Minor but the Porsche is still our favourite.

On the bridge over the canal.

An energetic rower,  I guess the upper half is keeping warm. Just wondering how cold the feet maybe!

Devizes cemetery...

Gorgeous old building.  There are various dates for the opening here but it dates from the mid-1800's

A drive-by sunset.

Back at the canal...

A working narrowboat.

Dogs meeting, owners invited.

A watering point, and I presume originally a drinking trough.

Out for a walk away from the dogs 😊

One of my FIL's ex-carers took pity on us all and arrived with this lovely bouquet of flowers. Thanks George much appreciated.

Devizes is a truly historic town and so full of history.  I try not to put too much information on the photodiary, so I have posted more about the town (part 2) on My Life In the Charente 2 with lots more information which might interest many of you.

We return home at the end of the month and I am not sure when I will have time for another post but will probably see you in February.

I have updated my bird blog HERE.

16/01/2019 Driving to Bath, Somerset, UK

My FIL has been in the hospital for a few days and most of these photos are on the drive into Bath to bring him home. Since then he has been back in again and we hope that possibly he will be back home again tomorrow. It has been a very difficult few days and very little time for photos and blogging.

Returning from the hospital the sunset was behind us.

I popped into Devizes before leaving and this is the indoor market...

and this is the outside market. It has been a market town for many 100's of years.

Cheery daffodils.

Pansies.

Primulas.

The Raven at Poulshot where we met friends for lunch. We thought we would have to cancel but we could only pick FIL up late afternoon...

Inside.

Driving to Bath I was reminded how many hedges there are in the UK.

Passing a pub - note the red phone box; yes they still exist here and some in working order...

a few houses en route...

Note the cones on the right of the road - it looked like the road had collapsed!!

Driving through Bathford...

Roadworks in Bathford...

Bath - this is Camden Road...

Bath - Julian Rd - My Mum's cousin used to have a shoe shop here. He had known Nigel for years via the Bath Car Club, and when Nigel moved to Africa in 1981 he arrived with my phone number - the rest is history

Bath - residential houses, Camden Crescent.

I have updated my bird blog HERE.

11/10/2017 Around the garden and a follow up on the local pallet factory

Maximum temperature 24C, minimum 11C.  14 km/h NW chilly winds, 30 km/h gusts. Dry.

 Speckled Wood

 As above pretending to be a leaf :-) 

Small Coppers (Lycaena phlaeas) - love is in the air despite it being autumn.

A one off shot of a bedraggled Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta).

Crane fly.

Mr Sparrow

As above

Mrs sparrow...

Hey is there room for me in there?

Peeking over the edge :-)

The new factory for the wooden pallets see the last post on this here ...

as above...

I am glad that the cladding is dark so hopefully when all is finished it will not look as bad as I expected!

Rose no 2 but it looks like it will be gone by tomorrow!!

P.S.  For those interested, Part 5 of our holiday in South Africa and Botswana is now on my other blog.

24/01/2017 A few random photos at home.

Maximum temperature 7C, minimum -5C. 32km/h NE  wind. Dry but with a frost.

Brave Blue Tit, I had just broken the ice...

cold feet...

Mmmm not that bad...

you put your right wing up.....

this was followed by the stare I am getting used to at/in the window.

Great Tit.

Tonight's sunset.

Using up bits and pieces before we go away, interesting combination of butternut, parsnip and onion frittata.  It was surprisingly tasty. 

This may be my last post for a while.  We are off on holiday to South Africa with no computer and minimal WIFI. Looking forward to some sun!  Stay well everyone and I  hope to be back in March.