Combe Hay

Footpath to the old cricket pitch, Combe Hay.

Fuji  E900 stitched with I.C.E. click picture to enlarge

Sunday walk, Combe Hay.

 

Sunday walk, Combe Hay.

The Mall at Cribbs Causeway

 

We went shopping at the Mall Cribbs Causeway today; it’s the first time we have been shopping together on a Saturday for years.

It’s one of the benefits of retirement, though the Mall was busy it was quieter than we expected.     And I couldn’t resist a few snaps of the excellent Christmas displays

 

  

 

Happy Christmas to all our friends

Bath Xmas Market 2008

Where is he!

A found him!

Father Xmas at the Village Christmas Party

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Is this Englands Oldest Mrs Christmas!

Mrs Joan Long who at 89 must be one of the oldest female Father Christmas’s in England.
Has been standing outside United Reform Church in Argyle Street, Bath at Christmas collecting for Christian aid with the choir for a number of years.

Bath Gas leak

Traffic problems on Lansdown

Area of the leak

A large part of Bath around Nelson Place East and London Street was closed shortly after 1pm today to check a gas leak believed to be in the Chinese takeaway.
Traffic was in gridlock from Lansdown to the paragon as the main access to the A4 was closed.

Dodgy Sat Nav!

If these Swifts were meant to be 

flying South this afternoon.

why were they heading West!

Shepherd Boy

 Tabitha taking part in the School Musical today.

John Straffen

One of the regular search term looked for on this site is John Straffen who died in November last year as Britain’s longest serving prisoner.

I had photographed the graves of the two girls Six-year-old Brenda Goddard and nine-year-old Cicely Batstone that he was accused of murdering in 1951.

As I was working near the cemetery today I visited the graves today to stand in silence for a few minutes and wonder what they would have been like if they had lived, as they would like me be approaching retirement.

I thought I could do them a little justice with a better picture than the original snapshot here.

The Wikipedia Article on the case.

Union passage Bath

Until the mid 60s the Farr family had a shop at the top of Union Passage in Bath.
It sold newspapers, sweets and paper dress making patterns and closed when the block was demolished.

Missed it!

 

The famous Christmas Market at Bath offered  

seasonal shopping, fine foods and family fun.

But you just missed it because it ended today.

Aneka Rice in a Squirrel helicopter.

 

Aneka Rice in a Squirrel helicopter.

Misty Morning, Combe Hay.

Misty Morning, Combe Hay.