Real World home of Peter Gabriel.

Box is a village just outside Bath, if you’re coming to Bath on the main London line and you look out of the right hand window as you leave Box Tunnel (you can’t miss it its over a mile long) you can see the old mill with a giant lead covered recording studio.
It’s the home of Peter Gabriel and his Real World Studios, Peter has just released his latest recording SCRATCH MY BACK, more details Here.  

Eve with her week old calf William.

 Eve with her week old calf William

Wheelchair Dancing.

I noticed that the BBC are starting a wheelchair dancing program (Dancing on wheels) and remembered photographing wheelchair dancing in Green Park Station for the Bath Chronicle in 2005.

Where the Chronicle leads the BBC follows.

Green Park Tango for wheelchair
Dance Teacher Michael Lavocah
Yinka Selley and her carer Tara Downs.

Copyright Sam Farr/The Bath Chronicle.   

New Tree.

Andy and Nicky have been out in Matthews’s truck today to buy a 15 foot Red Alder (Alnus Rubra) to replace the dangerous tree that had to be taken down last month.
They went to Chew Valley Trees and said that very helpful people, great service, friendly and knowledgeable too.
Chew Valley web site and details of the tree are HERE.

Fox Talbot Day Celebrations.

A dinner to remember William Fox Talbot, one of the founding fathers of photography, was held at the George Inn Lacock last night.
 It was attended by a number of photographers from the West Country and guests included descendants of Fox Talbot and the village carpenter Joseph Foden , who made the cameras in the barn that is now the Barn restaurant.
Guest of Honour was Roger Watson, Curator of the Fox Talbot Museum.

 Trevor Porter organiser of the evening and Roger Watson, curator of the Fox Talbot Museum with a replica of Fox Talbots original Mouse Trap Camera.

More snaps of the party are HERE click slideshow.

If you’re a photographer visiting Lacock I can recommend the George Inn, The food and service were excellent and very reasonably priced.
It has a Fox Talbot corner and you get a chance to eat in the room where one of the very first cameras was made.

Just the sort of place Willy Wonka would have chosen.

Keynsham blue sky, green fields and sheep, just the sort of place Willy Wonka would have chosen for a chocolate factory.
But obviously those lying B”^&£$%s at Kraft don’t agree.

How do they get new stock?

Ever looked at the New Southgate Centre in Bath and wondered how the shops get stock delivered?
Well it all goes down Kingston Road to these two loading bays, this one and another underground.