The heads have it

Got a message from Grace last night that  a dress I gave her to sell on Vinted months ago had sold! So the first job this morning was to despatch it. That done we walked round the back of the Georgian terrace that houses the girls nursery to cross the Avon and climb up to the Kennet and Avon Canal.

We like walking here and usually walk into Bath this way too but haven’t done on this visit and today we were walking the other way to Bathampton. Lots of photographic interest; there was a couple having a leisurely row making a pretty picture on the R Avon and then once on the canal masses of Hawthorne berries and colourful crab apples in the hedges. It seems such a short time since our last walk on here when we were enjoying the hedgerow blossoms and spring flowers.
We passed the menagerie below the canal path where there are lots of goats (Bobs blips spotted one on the towpath on his recent cycle along here) and there was a fine hairy pig which were entreated ‘not to feed’. 
I knew I could rely on the lovely canal side cottages in Bathampton for Friday flowers ( Iris in the spring) but the sight of these heads on the top of one of the barges was something quite different and therefore worth blipping. I hope you agree.  Occasionally some barges have things for sale and though there was no indication that these would be it’s hard to think that they were just made for display here.

We continued from the canal down to Batheaston Meadows and to Batheaston itself. First stop ‘Gather’ of course. A lovely warm morning and I was ready one of their refreshing juices. I was tempted to a beetroot Tabouleh too as it was nearly lunch time.

We got the bus back to where we’d left the car in Lambridge and then did a bit of shopping in Larkhall for our last night here.

This afternoon Grace’s neighbour offered us a bowl of super Victoria plums - extra - that she’d just picked in the paddock up behind their house. We took about half of them and will also be taking home a bag of apples that came from Jude’s friends mum at the bottom of Bailbrook. Such a lovely friendly bunch here, I’ll always enjoy coming though this week without the girls has been very quiet!
They were taking them horse riding on Lewis today, hoping to get some pictures later.

Happy Friday and bank holiday weekend all in England and Wales.

Happy birthday dad