Given the gloomy and quite cold weather, we've been walking a lot while talking about our plans for later in the year - all still quite provisional, with many possibilities still to be decided on so we'll tell you when things have become definite! As ever, watch this space…One of our several walks took us down Walcot Street, where this display of little persons' colourful socks caught my eye.
Not far away, maybe this owner forgot to put their boot back on after trying some socks?
An emphatic, if ambiguous declaration in this shop - nihilist central?
Quite a few empty shop fronts have appeared down the street - this one was being used to advertise a quirky play…
Great new poster at the bottom of the hill.
The River Avon was in full flow as we came over by Pulteney Bridge.
On the other side of the river nearer the weir.
Victorian Graffiti chiseled in very neatly…
Art?
More modern graffiti…
Back home, I glanced out of our kitchen window to see this glorious sight - from there it looked as though the rainbow landed in our near neighbours' back garden
I blame the Management …
Seagulls on a chimney stack of the new student residences opposite Green Park.
Work on the riverside improvements slowly moves forward…
I wonder how? This sign can't do much on its own, surely?
One of our walks was around Chippenham, where we saw this very old and off-vertical house front.
Found on the pavement just down our road - a coin from Bosnia Herzegovina.
Another walk down Walcot Street, another witty slogan. Wonder how coffee and cupcake do with partial differential equations?
Spotted atop The Bell, a most jolly wind-powered piece of art.
Further down Walcot Street, this had materialised since our last passage that way…
As had this bike-supported version at the bottom of Broad Street.
A very odd coat of arms and motto on the wall outside Marks & Spencer…
Now that the Bath Police Station has been sold off and is being redeveloped (no doubt for luxury executive accommodation rather than social housing), this seems to be the best that the Constabulary can offer. The van was locked with no obvious police presence, so that's a lot of use! Mind you just after we passed here we saw two officers get out of a patrol car to arrest, then chase and apprehend somebody…
We came out of the cinema (saw "Twentieth Century Women", an enjoyable coming of age story with a great performance by Annette Bening) to this view of the moon rising above Bath Rugby floodlit ground.
Yesterday's walk saw us roaming around the edges of Larkhall - found a path up the hill we'd never walked just after seeing this tipped mattress.
Up Charlcombe Lane to see the annual road closure will soon be upon us
A bit of guerrilla advertising for Opa, a Greek mezze restaurant we have yet to visit - may not be long before we do!
Further along the river, this boat has seen better days.
We've lived in Bath for 11 years now (and visited it for the previous 13 years when we lived in Clutton) and walking around it never fails to provide us with something we have not seen or noticed before. It's great to find new routes, so we'll keep on sniffing them out!
Enjoyed reading this, Marcus, especially as arthritis and my hand injury are still keeping me from comfortable walking or safe cycling. Love to you both, jane
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