Spring into summer

[bethnoir]

Feels like summer today. It's warm, there's a mild breeze, flowers are blooming and washing is getting dry on the line. It's downright pleasant. I had a particularly good weekend too. On Saturday I met up with a friend I'd met through the Guardian's Readers Recommend blog at Stonehenge. We each took children and picnics, the weather was fine and the barrows made up for the busy and un-spiritualness of the henge itself.


This is the view from the barrows

Sad, isn't it?

There was a lot of roadkill on the sixty mile journey. Sadly several badgers, foxes and pheasants had met their ends on the roads of South Gloucestershire, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset and Wiltshire, but on the plus side I didn't get lost.

On Sunday we visited Westonbirt Arboretum, it's magnolia season, beautiful flowering trees that smell incredibly sweet. They're my favourite thing, even better than the bluebells or camellias and rhododendrons which are out too. Look



Pretty and there was a butterfly



Plans are afoot for the Easter holiday, the first week around here, the second in Cornwall. I do hope the weather stays good, I could get used to going out without a coat and umbrella.

Comments

Would you still prefer gulls if they surrounded you at every step, glaring with their dead eyes?

[wolfy-codex.livejournal.com]

Hee, I somehow suspect the postcards on offer may look not mightily to dissimilar to that first photograph you have on your post! Still, the concept of a photograph of someone posting a photograph sounds interestingly postmodern as an artwork. Nice to see people living up to their national stereotypes as well! Meanwhile some may go to Stonehenge for the spiritual experience, others go for the ice cream. Do they arrange the flakes in a circle and lie them on top of another? :P

yes, I like gulls, but if they try to take over the world, I'm siding with the cats

[bethnoir.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of monument specific ice creams, I think you should copyright the concept and sell it to ice cream makers. There could be the Avebury circle with minstrels arranged appropriately, Glastonbury Tor with a specially shaped dome and some curlywurly for the church on top and perhaps a specially made mould for Abbey's like Whitby which would require a spoon to get through the architecture :-)

I fear little Mr. Fluffy would have a hard time faced with the might of a gull army.

[wolfy-codex.livejournal.com]

Internet Research Wolf couldn't seem to find any monument shaped ice creams so perhaps there is indeed a gap in the market. He did however come across other artistic uses for dessert and apparently even the American Ice Cream Sculpting Championships!

darn they've done the pyramids, the idea is not so new

[bethnoir.livejournal.com]

research wolf is most appreciated, but it seems an investment in historical ice cream sculptures might not be such a good one after all, it's been done to an extent. Oh well, I shall wait until your next inspiration strikes!

This Time Next Year We'll Be Millionaires!

[wolfy-codex.livejournal.com]

Fear not, I already have plans afoot to stockpile petrol and sell off cut-price Cornish pasties on the black market!

Re: This Time Next Year We'll Be Millionaires!

[bethnoir.livejournal.com]

excellent, fortunes are made that way

Re: This Time Next Year We'll Be Millionaires!

[wolfy-codex.livejournal.com]

By devious underhand practices with no thought for the welfare of ones fellow man you mean? :)