Monday 31 August 2009

Ayuntamiento


Ayuntamiento in Spanish means town council or town hall. It also means sexual intercourse. I wonder how that one came about!

Friday 28 August 2009

Sounds like a party.


The wonders of the English language!

Thursday 27 August 2009

Summer

Over-ripe strawberries fill the mouth with sweet juice. So good.

Saturday 15 August 2009

Combe Gibbet on Gallows Down - maintenance.


The old piece of orange binder twine has been changed for grey wire! (see Feb 09 blog) The gallows stands on a Neolithic long barrow dating to about 3700BC, presumably still full of very old bones as it hasn't been excavated.

Wednesday 5 August 2009

Tawny Owl


Who would want to do this? I found it coincidentally on Gallows Down last year.

Monday 3 August 2009

Trike



A poignant moment watching it crash onto unwanted metal jumbled in a skip, at the tip, this favoured possession red and white upside down, discarded without his consent. THEN, the local kids on bikes thought it cool that it could pedal backwards. He tipped into a bed of nettles and didn't cry. He loved the bow wave through every puddle, but he never learned the brakes. NOW, he's grown up and it's forgotten, but not by me.