In which we visit east Bristol, and Clevedon
Written by Forest Pines; published at 9:21 am on February 27th, 2009.
Filed under: Photobloggery.
A month or so ago, we took a trip to Clevedon, Somerset. I wrote about it at the time, although, I realise now, didn’t actually say which town we’d been to. Here, though, are some of the photographs.

And, as that’s not very many, here’s some of Bristol just after Christmas, too:

Keyword noise: abandoned, astronomy, Bristol, Christmas, Christmas decorations, Church Rd, Clevedon, Clevedon Pier, coast, coastline, derelict, derelict hotel, disused, frozen, hotel, ice, lake, moon, night, night sky, North Somerset, park, park bench, photography, photos, pier, resort, Royal Pier Hotel, sea, seaside, shore, Somerset, St George
In which we describe Portishead
Written by Forest Pines; published at 2:57 pm on February 23rd, 2009.
Filed under: Dear Diary.
Another lazy weekend this weekend. Wanting to get out of the house, though, we took a trip to Portishead.
It’s a strange town. A strangely-shaped town. Like Clevedon, it’s a seaside town that doesn’t look towards the sea. The harbour is lined tightly with recently-built classically-themed terraces, designed to look like Totterdown or Clifton, but packed in much more densely. Further south is a muddy bay, a headland looking across to Newport; and the remains of an old fortress, little more than lines of concrete in the clifftop grass. There is also, signs said, some Iron Age defensive works; but they are well-hidden by trees and my rusty eye couldn’t make them out.
Clevedon had a pier and an interesting bookshop; Portishead didn’t seem to have any similar attractions. We tried (and failed) to find the lighthouse marked on our map,* before going home, blown back by the wind off the sea.
* taking the map with us might have been a start
Keyword noise: archaeology, architecture, beach, Bristol, buildings, harbour, North Somerset, Portishead, resort, sea, seashore, seaside, seaside town, Somerset, weekend
In which there are more photos of the Wirral shore
Written by Forest Pines; published at 8:47 am on April 12th, 2007.
Filed under: Photobloggery.


Keyword noise: beach, Dee, Dee estuary, estuary, Merseyside, photography, photos, resort, River Dee, sea, seaside, shore, West Kirby, Wirral
In which we go to the seaside
Written by Forest Pines; published at 6:46 pm on April 9th, 2007.
Filed under: Dear Diary.
And, I’m back, myself. From an Easter Weekend away. We went out on an excursion through the Wallasey tunnel,* to the seaside. Photos to come later in the week. H thought about walking out to sea, to wade across to the Hilbre Islands, but the tide wasn’t quite right, and the water started creeping up to the knee.
Apart from that, we relaxed, unwound, wound up again, that sort of thing. And ate lots of chocolate, jelly and cake, of course, because it’s seasonal. Are there any festivals which aren’t used as an excuse to eat something, even if it’s something not very impressive?
* Fellow Sinister veterans will be pleased to know that I did hum Marx And Engels to myself as we drove.
Keyword noise: beach, break, Dee estuary, Easter, estuary, Hilbre, holiday, islands, Liverpool, Merseyside, resort, river, River Dee, sea, seaside, weekend, West Kirby, Wirral
In which FP catches something
Written by Forest Pines; published at 7:32 pm on March 20th, 2007.
Filed under: Dear Diary.
It was Scarborough that did it.
We had a lovely day, walking up and down the prom, eating candy floss in the car,* going up and down the cliff lift, avoiding the waves that were splashing up over the edge of the prom and over the road: the sea looked like an over-full bathtub. But it was the cold, biting wind, that left me feeling half-asleep and jammed up for the past couple of days, left me wishing I could stay tucked up in bed asleep for a week.
* so it didn’t blow away
Keyword noise: cold, ill, illness, resort, Scarborough, sea, seaside, sick, weather, wind, Yorkshire