Chicken, Printers and Wholefoods…

We were mentioned yesterday on Connie Cuthbertson's blog. She is a Canadian artist who we met on Symi in the Olive Tree last month. She described us thus, "One couple I talked to, Su and her hubby Marcus, are now retired and working at their blogs as they post their travels and daily life activities. Nice!" Thanks for the heads up, Connie!  And here I am, blogging about just those topics again today.

This morning saw the sun shining again for a little while.

It even made the hose look artistic to my eyes.

Walking Bella, passed this set composed of bits of spare wood from neighbours' new decking. Note the elegant curve of the house next door's patio.

One of Mark's chickens came up to have a look at Bella and me.

Enough sun for proper shadows on Fairfield Park Road!

A slow morning was followed by a trip down Walcot Street to Harvest. A new print establishment, Meticulous, has opened close by - hope they manage to make a go of it.

This is Harvest, Bath's main wholefood shop - now with an expresso coffee machine as well as yummy food, decent bread and everything else you'd expect to find there.

Opposite, in the 70s Bath City Council in their wisdom gave permission for this building to blend in with the Georgian and Victorian architecture. The sun had gone by now, but the rain had not yet started…

Came home, managing to avoid getting trapped behind one of the myriad recycling and bin lorries that deal with our part of Bath on a Thursday.

Grand houses on Camden.

A rather fine flag iris in our next door neighbours' pond

Went out for lunch, passing Burdall's Yard down on the London Road.  This has recently been acquired by Bath Spa University for concerts and other events.  We have still have to get down to an event there. As it will go quiet for the Summer, it may be some time.

Coming home, on the corner of Lansdown and Camden Crescent is Ye Olde Farmhouse pub. Good music there, especially jazz. We must go up there again soon.

The grand central pillars of Camden Crescent. Actually they are off centre, because, as Wikipedia relates "in 1889 a landslide demolished 9 houses at the east end of the crescent. The remains of the houses were demolished and removed to allow Hedgemead Park to be built. This means that the central feature of the crescent is no longer in the middle."

This day a year ago, the weather was hot and Su was dreaming  of blue skies and blue seas while planning a long break for us in the Autumn.