Aug 21st The view of NC from Moredon Hill. There is a loveley view of the village, church and the levels from the top of this hill just outside the village. It around circular walk from my house down as the church and then up the hill towards this lovely view the walk takes us back down to the Stokes and Gregory Road and then back into the centre of the village

Aug 20th Knapp Cricket Club. Just around 500 yards up Knapp Lane is the hamlet of Knapp, no shops, church or facilities other than a newly opened pub (dorment for the last 11 years) . It does however have a cricket field which doubles as a famers filed when the match is over.....On with the sheep.

Aug 19th. In growing knots. I rather liked this photo, which I took looking into a gatepost as I walked over a style. So often we see a branch from the outside perspective. This is a photographs looking inside a hollow log where the roots of the branches are the only things left, the wood from the trunk has rotted away

Aug 18^th. Ham Suspension Bridge. A private suspension bridge linking Coal Harbour with Ham was built in 1968 to replace an earlier bridge. It crosses the River Tone at Ham just outside North Curry and leads to a single private house. There cannot be many of these around.

Aug 17th Nether Stowey. lies on the edge of the Quantock Hills Park. It is very famous for Samuel Taylor Coleridge the romantic poet. However, today I found this delightful petrol station from days gone bye. One pump, years old and a single bay garage. A real walk back in time

Aug 16th. Hinden is a delightful Wiltshire village just off the A303, sadly for Hindon it does provide a superb traffic busting rural route when a certain part of the A303 are jammed. A lovely little village with two pubs and 500 people it has a wide lime tree lined High Street.

Aug 15th  5.56am Sunrise over Langport. The mist in the valleys in the background combined with the large round bales of straw created a really nice picture early this morning. (click on the picture to expand)  Hardly a car in sight and the sun in my eyes all the way to Stonehenge

Aug 14th. Charlotte and Chris Morris.It was good to see old friends who were on their way back to Gloucestershire from Exmoor. Chris, a photographer has just launched his new book about the Forest of Dean and a signed copy sits on our kitchen table.

Aug 13th . The North Curry Flower Show. Every village has one – The Flower Show – Plants being knobbled by competitors, judges who are “above suspicion “ and this year a double booking on set up night. A very angry chap from the North Curry Bowles club came in to clear the hall as his Club was hosting Glastonbury within the hour. Susan and I, we helping to setup, we made a speedy exit.

Aug 12th The Garden. It just got out of control so quickly. One moment we were waiting for things to grow, the next we are looking like the vedge counter at Tesco. Tomatoes, courgettes and beans coming out of our ears. The apples in their 3^rd year looking great

Aug  11th. Tim Wright. Andover Trailers. Tim is the Managing Director and Owner of Andover Trailers, heavy industry at its best. They make huge bespoke trailers for civil and military contractors. A trip around the fabrication factory was a real treat.

Aug 10th. The Palace Cinema, Alton. Take an old village cinema, leave carpets from the 1960’s, divide the first and ground floors into two smaller theatres and your nearly there. Sprinkle a liberal amount of dust (10 years worth) and get the ticket seller to treble as projectionist and ice cream salesman and you have got it. 30 seats, half normal prices and no adverts – a real winner

Aug 9th Roger Brown-Hovelt. RBH as he is known is the last remaining full time solicitor in Grayshott. He and his wife Pippa run this family legal practice in Grayshott. He has been in the village for years and has mellowed with age, good and wise counsel

Aug 8th The River Wey at Tilford. Set on the edge of this over photographed village green the River Wey runs under two bridges either side o the cricket green. To the right is an old farm house which owns half the river and in the past the residents have been subject to legal attack as holiday makers damage themselves in the stream

Aug 7th . The Tunnel Walk in Knapp.

Just on the outskirts on Knapp village is this footpath with leads towards Thornfalcon. As with another photo I took a month or so ago in Hampshire the erosion of the footpath compared to the fields on either side has created this tunnel effect. A route to a mystical world? – I don’t know, I never ventured up!

Aug 6th Victoria Plum. This is one of our first fruit trees that were planted three years ago and this year we only had four fruits upon it. Yet Apple's were much better this year however the fruits were so much smaller due to the lack of rain this summer.We have high hopes for this Plum

Aug 5th The Flaming Star. Is a most unusual wartime structure mounted on a wall in the middle of Langport. The flaming Star is as it suggests made in the late 1890s and part of the original gasworks in that era. When operating each one of the prongs throughout a gas flame which really must've looked quite spectacular.

Aug 4th Brian Moore. There I was wondering up the footpath at Trevose Head with Simon Spencer an old mate.. Brian Moore walks towards us and we had a good natter about rughy.  He played in three Rugby Wold Cups. He was also a member of the England side which won the Grand Slam in 1991, 1992 and 1995. In 1991, he was voted Rugby World Player of the Year.

Aug 3rd Treyarnon Bay in North Cornwall. Its the middle of August oand nobody on the beach in Cornwall! Thats because they are still asleep. Its 7.30 in the morning and I walked up onto the coastal footpath to look for some bird life.

Aug 2nd Hannah Spencer. And as the oldest daughter of some great friends of ours Sarah and Simon they run a school just outside Redding and Hannah has now taken up the reins and teaches there has does her sister, her brother Adam is the school bursar so it is really a family affair

Aug 1st The New Cricket Pitch at North Curry. This is a fine example of Planning at its best. A landowner with a social conscience, a local authority with some common sense. Six large new houses and a field. The 106 contributions from the developer has paid for the new cricket pavilion.

July 31st Stoke St Gregory Church. Of course thought that this is an attractive church with a rather picturesque graveyard. The octagon shaped tower with a steeple on top is rather unusual but to me it does show that in years gone by Stoke like North Curry was clearly a wealthy village

July 30th Hestercombe is situated on the southern slopes of the Quantock Hills with extensive views over the Vale of Taunton to the Blackdown Hills beyond. Perhaps one of the finest Edwradian Gardens in the Country, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll between 1904 and 1908. Susan stands at the end of the ryll

July 29th Keith Madge Keith runs a logging business just off the centre of North Curry and has sadly made a number of enemies due to the hundreds of dumpy bags in his field storing up logs for the new season it appears that the good people of North Curry think it rather unsightly especially from the church. Needless to say planning fight is on the way

July 28th Langport Viaduct. This is a really interesting piece of construction and takes the role wave from Castle Cary over the Somerset levels towards at Taunton. Building it must have been quite a feat in the 1890s when the levels were just large bogs in the middle of nowhere hundreds of tonnes of material must be news