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We had the usual long walk to Heni's great cake, then walked along the canal into town, and as we hit the flight of locks at Widcombe we encountered classic British stupidity. Young men, no clue what they are doing, hire a canal boat, get drunk, destroy it. Happens far too often. Some drunken stag do types had manage to catch their hired boat on the lip of the lock, and it was wrecked - the lock was emptying, they were clambering out of the boat as it got more and more unrecoverable, yet despite the risk to life were still rescuing 'stuff' - bottles of booze, clothes. There are way too many of these drunken young men renting boats and then destroying property or spoiling everyone else's peaceful day out by being drunk and vaguely threatening. Something should be done about it. Big, big fines for being drunk on a boat, extending simply 'being on a boat' to being in charge of it - whatever, drunken stupidity is the curse of this country, the more we can do make being drunk an unacceptable behaviour the better. Bring back the drunk tank.
Looking west from the hill on the way up to the University campus. Getting our of Bath in any direction other than directly east or west involves going up steep hills! But that does mean good views from the skyline. On this horizon one can just see one of the Severn suspension bridges and the outline of the South Wales hills.
No trespassing this time; the electric gates miraculously opened as I passed. Pity about the car.
Interestingly the fountain has now moved again.
Love the wonky roof, betrays the much older building that must be behind the elegant façade. Stone tiled too, unusual for Bath today.
Built between 1846 and 1847, principally to designs by Bath City Architect George Phillips Manners, St Matthew's Church in Widcombe is situated above the Widcombe Locks of the Kennet and Avon Canal and opposite the Church Room Institute on Cambridge Place. It is one of two churches in the parish of Widcombe, the other being the much older St Thomas à Becket.
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On our way to the Widcombe Art trail thingy I pointed out to my girl that we were very, very close to the church where the new Peregrine babies have just hatched, and if wandered a bit closer we might see the parents on the prowl.
Holy crap, did we see the parents on the prowl. It was carnage in the skies, giant nuclear clouds of feathers giving away where the strike just happened, and the female is a *big* un, when she kills a pigeon it stays dead. Then it becomes a quick snack, then what's left becomes dinner for the babies. And the boy was no slouch either, we saw him fly back to the nest with half a pigeon in his talons. Next week we'll go back with binoculars and settle down with a sandwich to watch the spectacle!!
Basin before last lock. Final resting place of my 28mm f3.5 lens which fell out of my bag and rolled into canal. RIP
Pentax Super A with Pentax A 50mm f1.7; f11, 1/125 sec. Fuji NPS 160 (use by 01/2004 stock)
YX17 NRV : ADL Enviro 200 of The Big Lemon.
YX17 NRV was previously operated by HCT Group Operations Community Interest Company operating as Bristol Community Transport as their 1286, and retains that livery.
Widcombe Parade, Bath Spa.
25-03-2023
A day on Dartmoor in Devon, exploring by e-bike the areas geography, history, ecology, landscape and culture. And we met the wild Dartmoor ponies towards the end! Great personalised tour by Inga from Dartmoor Walks this way.
April 2023.
Central London Outdoor Group (CLOG) long weekend in Bath.
Walk from Bath to Bradford-on-Avon.
I'm horribly indecisive, so gunna upload three options for my exam final piece, and let the views decide.
Brunel managed to sneak in quite a long straight on the exit from the sharp bend in the City of Bath. The stretch is crossed by four bridges - a steel span at Brougham Hayes, two gothic masonry arches at Oldfield Park station and Hayters Bridge carrying Bellotts Road. Lastly, the brick arch carrying the Somerset and Dorset Railway trackbed, here it hides behind the Bellotts Road bridge.
Also visible in this photo is a large bird - it's at top left - any guesses what it is?