Beside the sea
Taken on a "Kodak Flash Brownie B" using Ilford HP5 120, rerolled for 620. The film was then left in the camera for 3 years before being "found" and sent for development.
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Lundy II
When we visited Lundy for our honeymoon in 2015, we didn't think we be returning to the island for quite a long time. But due to a logistics issue with a planned trip to Scotland, we found ourselves heading back, but this time with a tent. We had originally planned on touring the Scottish small isles on our tandem but that plan required a larger car to transport it, and as we had started to buy a house I had held off car purchases. So with a week of annual leave coming up we browsed the Landmark trust site and booked a trip to Lundy to stay at the campsite.
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San Francisco
Continue reading...It took me a really long time (almost a year) to finish this post. I'm not sure why but because of that I'm sure i've missed off some of the details. However if you get the chance you should visit San Francisco it's a really beautiful place.
The Last Train
When i'm not cycling I seem to do a lot of standing on railway platforms. This is the 20:47 to Cheltenham Spa, one of the last few trains this evening from Gloucester.
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The New Bike Begins
A dive in the bits box and a few new bits and a lighter commuter bike starts to come together.
Update (12/7/16): This post started as a short lived experiment with image posts where I was trying to figure out if I could replace my use of Instagram with something homegrown. I was going to delete it...
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The Cotswold Show
We've not managed to get to the Cotswold country show before as it's usually taking place when we are away elsewhere, but with a free Sunday for once we headed over to the Bathurst Estate to take in the sights. Understandably I spent the most time in the rare breeds tent.
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Lundy
Not long after we had gotten together Mary and I put together a bucket list of activities we’d like to do together, simple things like have a microadventure, more camping, and places to visit. One of the things we decided we wanted to do was to visit Lundy island, and when I asked Mary to marry me, we knew straight away where we wanted to go on honeymoon.
Lundy is a granite rock with the Bristol channel on one side and the Atlantic on the other about 11 miles off the coast of Devon, it’s been home to pirates, smugglers, wealthy landowners, lighthouse keepers, and more recently farmers,the National Trust and the Landmark Trust.
The Landmark Trust, have renovated 23 properties as self catering accommodation, as well as the tavern, the shop, and quarters for the staff and farmers. Transport to the island is either by boat or by helicopter and everything arrives or leaves by one of these two methods. We decided we’d very much like to spend a few days on the island where peak population is about 90 people, the power goes off at midnight, and mobile phone signal is unheard of.
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Pie & Pedals
Tim from #yacf was visiting Coventry with work this week so a meeting and ride of forum members from the West Midlands was arranged. In attendance was myself, Tim Hall, Kim, Basil, and AWL. Meeting up at Berkwell station we prepared to head off to see the Anthony Gormley statue in Lowsonford, very quickly a route was concocted and we were off.
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Light at the end of the tunnel
This week I had the joy of finishing a day early. alas that joy was spoiled by the fact it was easter and so had everyone else. It also seemed that they’d all decided to take the train to somewhere, anywhere really it seemed as long as it involved the train I was on.
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