Royal Wedding Cake

 

Helen with Wendy's Royal Wedding cake.

Tabitha's eighth birthday party

 

Cake by Nicky, Cheese straws by Wendy. 

Sucking the sludge from the river Somer.

 Its cleanup time for the river Somer in Midsomer Norton High Street

The river Somer rises in Chilcompton and flows through Midsomer Norton then joins with Wellow Brook and flows through Wellow before joining with the Cam Brook in Midford where it becomes Midford Brook which eventually joins the river Avon .

Laid Back Photographer.

Laid Back Photographer.

Royal Wedding Mug

My Royal Wedding Mug arrived.

On this day in 1960 Eddie Cochran died.

The Eddie Cochran memorial stone at St Martins Hospital, Bath.

It was moved from its original place to its permanent place, behind the chapel (a much much better site) but they had a few problems with the stone as it was put down flat on the ground, not in an upright position, so all of the rain would settle in the groves of the gold lettering, this would start a chemical reaction over a year or so and would fade all of the gold lettering, the lettering almost disappeared.

They had the gold lettering replaced, the same thing happened again, so now we had new gold lettering and the head of Eddie Cochran in silver renewed and more new granite added and put in an upright position, it is much larger and a real showpiece. thanks to the man that did the work on the stone  Mr. David Ashwell.

 Graham Love was at the last  Eddie Cochran concert in Bristol, and was back stage for part of the show.
The memorial was installed at St Martins in 1998 by Graham Love (ex Bathonion living in the USA for the last 29 years) and a good friend of his Pete Morgan from Bristol UK they have worked on this project from the start, it has been expensive but worth it.

More blog posts about Eddie are Here 

A kilt for Andy.

Nicky and Andy are in Scotland for a friend's wedding today, thought you would like to see Andy in his kilt.  Nicky has taken 4 different outfits so she can choose according to the weather.

Rats Revenge

Our neighborhood friendly rat team had been at work eating this 13amp cable, fortunately it didn't start melting till it was moved by the builders.

Rats

 In the roof space of the old extension that is being demolished at the moment the builders came across a nest of mummified rats.

So if you thinking of taking up witchcraft or just thinking of giving bubonic plague to someone who has defriended you on Facebook, please apply in writing to RATS R US  C/O Sam Farr Combe Hay.

Strange pointy chimney guards.

Have you ever noticed these strange pointy chimney guards in St James Parade, Bath.

More building progress.

Mike checks the levels watched by Ed and JD

 New on the site carpenter Ed

Nice one Jack

Jack Davis has an exhibition of his work in the Octagon, Bath over the next two weeks.

 ‘People & and Places’

Wednesday 6th – Sunday 17th of April
     Mon-Sat 10am-6pm
     Sun 10am-5pm

Entry Free

Building progress.

Andy tries his hand at dumper truck driving.

Jon the digger waits as the concrete arrives.

 

Jonny wets himself 

with the hose while washing the dumper.

Big Hush Puppies Dog

The choice was, buy the shoes or fight the dog.

 
OK I'm a coward I bought the shoes.