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May 17, 2020
Locked in and dreaming of mountain scapes
Once on my travels botanizing in the Hex River mountains in the Western Cape in South Africa I was in the right place at the right time. It was dusk and I was…
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sevendipity
May 17, 2020
Silent City: Covid-19 in Bath, Part 5
I love it when one sees things in one's neighbourhood that have always been there but one has never seen them before. They seem to catch one unawares yet are no…
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sevendipity
May 17, 2020
Silent City: Covid-19 in Bath, Part 4
Today I got up at 5.30 am and did a 2 hour walk across Bath and apart from an empty bus, two refuse lorries and one car saw no one. Seems Sunday is still a…
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sevendipity
May 15, 2020
From Angels to birds
Perhaps the most resonant piece of art at the Matara Centre in Gloucestershire for me is a quiet, almost unobtrusive, sculpture of a man holding a bird. There…
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sevendipity
May 15, 2020
Angel Magic
The Matara Centre is a unique Gloucestershire wedding and events venue in the Cotswolds ( https://matara.co.uk/). It is owned by my friend, visionary and life…
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sevendipity
May 13, 2020
Remembering the little 'gatherings' one can see at markets
In Bath, we have a number of regular street and indoor markets. One of our family's favourite Saturday pastimes before the Covid-19 lockdown was to explore…
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sevendipity
May 12, 2020
Doorway Gardens
I am delighted in seeing a new trend in Bath where people in flats are beginning to populate, where they can, the entrance doorways of their buildings. It is a…
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sevendipity
May 12, 2020
Adria Bellflower
One of the free floral delights in the streets of Bath City in the UK is the Adria Bellfower (Campanula postenschlagiana) which adorns many of Bath's sandstone…
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sevendipity
May 11, 2020
Lower Common East allotments, Bath
On an early walk earlier this week near my house I popped in to visit the Lower Common East allotments in Bath, which is situated just up the road from where I…
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sevendipity
May 10, 2020
Plants ignore the lockdown
One is struck as one walks through Covid-19 Lock down Bath just how quickly weeds start to take over a city given the chance. Here are a few examples.
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sevendipity
May 10, 2020
Silent City: Covid-19 in Bath, Part 3
Big global events like Covid-19 create their own physical debris and ephemera. In this posting I decided to document some of the many signs that businesses and…
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sevendipity
May 10, 2020
Silent City: Covid-19 in Bath UK, Part 2
Many shops have closed in Bath over the last few months and in my walk around the city I noticed some had closed for good. This has been a worrying trend over…
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sevendipity
May 10, 2020
Silent City: Covid-19 in Bath UK, Part 1
This morning I went for a very early morning stroll through my city having been inside for nearly 9 weeks. It is Sunday morning and a Bank Holiday. If it had…
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sevendipity
Aug. 22, 2019
When dams dry up ...
While botanising in South Africa in late 2017 I was passing through the Theewaterskloof area when I noticed that the Theewaterskloof Dam was almost empty. This…
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sevendipity
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