River Avon, Bedminster towards Bower Ashton.
The Create Building through the tree branches.
River at high tide.
Bedminster
Old Paper Bag Factory, Bedminster.
Lee’s bakery.
A house I used to live in as an art student in 1992. It still looks exactly the same with the same yellow door but the oddest conversion has happened of cutting the house in half right down the middle to make 2 maisonettes!
Polish shop.
Bristol Chocolate Festival, Easter
Drawing easter eggs at the Bristol Chocolate Festival.
A brilliant fun time. I hope they have the Chocolate Festival again next year.
Houses
Bickleigh Castle, Devon where my grandpa lived in the 1960s and 70s. The Beatles looked round and were interested in buying it but decided it was too small!
I couldn’t look round as it is now a hotel but would like to stay there one day.
The cottages behind the wall where my mother and aunt used to stay.
It is situated in an area of outstanding natural beauty. The castle looks really lovely with its own 6th century chapel, moat and gardens. I have been recommended by friends who stayed here recently to stay in the bridal suite if you are interested to see the main house, hall etc. and they said the family who live here are very nice and welcoming.
A perfect place to stay on the long drive down to Cornwall!
www.bickleighcastle.com
Art
Damien Hirst sculpture at the RWA, Bristol ‘Charity’. It really seems to make sense now in this economic downfall.
David Hockney exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art, London showing landscape paintings, ipad prints and videos of Yorkshire and a few of California. AMAZING! Following the tradition of Gainsborough but in his unique way.
The 2 hour queue in the morning!
A trip to Falmouth in March
Pendennis Castle was built by Henry VIII in 1539 as part of a national building programme of coastal artillery forts to protect England from French and Spanish invasion.
Henry’s fort has four main elements: a guardhouse, a forebuilding, a central round tower and a surrounding gun platform called the ‘chemise’.
It was designed as a gun fort and from the middle of the 17th Century was used as accommodation, offices, an officer’s mess and storage. During the Second World War it became the headquarters of the Falmouth Fire Command.
The guard barracks were built in 1700 and are the earliest surviving barracks in England. They accommodated the guard and later used as a hospital, a schoolroom and a carpenter’s workshop. The northern block was altered in the early 20th Century to provide a modern guardroom and detention cells for badly behaved soldiers.
The block is kept in the period of the First World War. Thousands of troops passed through The castle for training.
I explored the castle and took some photos.
</aThe entrance to the castle.
Coat of arms.
Entrance.
Gargoyle.
View from the top.
View of the Royal Garrison Artillery Barracks.
The sea and lighthouse.
Side of the castle.
Circular side.
The guard room.
Fireplace and paintings in the guard room.
Posters in the guard room.
Soldiers suitcases.
Fireplace and beautiful old map.
Detention room.
Guard detention room.
Bed and barred window.
Soldier’s lockers.
Army poster.
Women at home poster.
Barrack detention room.
Shops and shopping
Antique shop, Falmouth.
Antique ornaments.
Fortnum and Mason’s fun windows, Piccadilly, London.
</Arty shop, Bristol.
Polish shop, Bristol.
Trendy shops, Falmouth.
Antique shop, Falmouth.
Old shop, Stokes Croft, Bristol.
Vintage shop, Portobello Road, Notting Hill Gate.
Close up.
