We’ve been ‘hacked!’

You come home through the lane alongside your boundary wall and suddenly realise someone has been chopping back your ivy…

Lack of information

Green councillors in B&NES have criticised what they consider to be a lack of communication regarding the impact of the…

Where’s the flag?

June is PRIDE month – where is the flag? Since posting this earlier today l have been told that access…

We’re doing it again!

[combined open day] David Taylor writes: ‘Following the success of this event in April, Bath Stone Museum and the historic…

Saturday’s civic ceremonial

[ An image from a previous civic ceremony with Terry Mitchell – a long-serving mayor’s officer – leading the way]…

Pic of the day. Wednesday, May 3rd

Dedicated bike lane taking shape outside the Victoria Art Gallery.

Street Art Train

Avon Valley Railway is delighted to announce the latest arrival at Bitton Station – ‘Street Art Train’. Bristol artists ‘Inkie’,…

A man who loved Bath

What was Bath to Oliver Messel, artist, architect, theatre and interior designer? And how queer was his redesign of Bath…

This story is rubbish

I cycle along the canal towpath into town to avoid the London Road, but the one thing you can’t avoid…

Bath’s lost art

[Not much to see of the wind mobile now] I didn’t want to start the week off in a bad…

Pic of the day. Tuesday, June 2nd

If this were the Royal Crescent, this coat-of-arms-bearing lamp standard would have been restored. Not so in Manvers Street.

‘Sore’ close!

Long-term followers of this blog will know how critical I have been about the redevelopment of the Sawclose. I considered…

Democracy under threat?

Are we right, as citizens, to conclude that our democratic systems are in genuine danger of collapse, or is there…

Beethoven and ballet

[Red, white and blue!] A weekend of culture for me. It began with a pew seat at St Mary’s Church,…

Pic of the day. Monday, June 1st

Love it. Real flowers, too!

Pic of the day. Sunday, May 31st

Busy bee

Pic of the day. Saturday, May 30th

Not a coffee shop.

Blue badge checks

[B&NES Council Civil Enforcement Officer checking a Blue Badge.] Hundreds of Blue Badges were checked by Bath & North East…