Horse Dentist

Biscuit had a visit from Wayne Abbott the horse dentist today, no filling of filing. 
But she was very happy to get back in her field.

The Dogs

 

Wendy spent the afternoon photographing the dogs

 Munro helps with the washing.

 They're very happy to share a bone.

 And have a who has the widest mouth contest

 But they really just enjoy the freedom of the garden.

Public Service Strike

Soon after we married in the early 70s we were living in the flat over our shop in Abbey Churchyard.

We had a public services strike and everybody had to drive the family rubbish up Wellsway, where we chucked the rubbish over the wall on to land that now houses Entry Hill golf course 

It must have been difficult for people without cars, imagine taking you rubbish on the bus.

This is me with out little red mini disposing of the family rubbish, didn't need to register with the council computer then, because they only had one and that was writing rent rebate letters and ran on punch tape.

Easter Egg Hunt

Clive Mantle

Sorry to Hear Clive Mantle lost part of his ear on Sunday, this is my picture of Clive doing the washing up at the Xmas together dinner in 2002 when Loraine Morgan-Brinkhurst was the Mayor of Bath

Former energy minister Chris Huhne

Former energy minister Chris Huhne canvassing for the Lib Dem leadership in Chippenham in 2006.

 

Nice day to photograph Bath

 Nice day to photograph Bath

Bath Mini World

I've been making Mini Worlds since 2006 using an SLR with tripod and spending about 15 minutes with a £700 copy of Photoshop.

I was surprised to find my £250 unlocked Google Nexus 4 phone has the effect built in and does it in seconds here's a sample taken yesterday at Alexandra Park.

Come on Mr Apple the rest are catching up, time to start innovating again!

New dress for Lottie

Nicky took Lottie to have her nails done professionally for the first time, looks like Lottie conned a new dress as well.

Then and Now.

Just found  my first mobile phone from 1987 a Motorola 8800x compared with my Google Nexus 4, looks about the same size till you turn it sideways and find the battery was 2ozs heavier than the whole Nexus.

It had a ten number memory and very short battery life, everything was on contract so when it was updated they let me keep it.

Fox Talbot's Birthday

A group of photographers meet at Lacock tonight to celebrate the work of the great William Henry Fox Talbot. Museum Curator Roger Watson talked about his new soon to be published book "Capturing the light”  which is 36% off for pre-order at Amazon.

M Shed Bristol

We visited the M shed this week and were very impressed, excellent exhibition, well presented and very entertaining,  it would be great if Bath had a similar free museum.

 

All aspects of Bristol life and industry in one 

place from buses to aero engines.

The only paid for part is the chocolate exhibition 

that's on till the 6th of May

Domestic Goddess?

Wendy worked today so I knocked up Cauliflower cheese and Bread and butter pudding for her return.

So as not to disappoint here's one of my snaps of Nigella last time we met.

Goodbye to Twerton storm tanks

Twerton storm tanks, a little known corner of Bath, they were next to the pumping station that sends all the Bath sewage to Saltford.

In times of heavy rain the old pipe to Saltford couldn't cope with pumping,  so the sewage and drain water was stored in open tanks next to the Chronicle office at Windsor Bridge. 

If you had a heavy storm followed by a hot sunny day it was very smelly.

 The tanks have now been demolished following improvement in the pipes to Saltford.

Combe Hay in the snow 2013