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Getting Home (by alaric)

Today, we went down to Bristol to visit Costco and stock up on baby supplies, and to have an outing in the city centre itself.

It was a lovely place to explore, but I was a bit sad - I remember visiting there about 15 years ago and there being a road with loads of big academic bookshops on near the University; but when we went there today, there was just a single small Blackwells. The others had been replaced with clothes shops, shoe shops, and hairdressers, it seemed.

Still, at the end of the day, we headed back up the M5 with Jean asleep. As we approached junction 11A, I commented that we were nearly home - it was just about ten minutes from there. We took the junction, went along the A417 one junction to the A46, but at Crosshands Roundabout - the exit to continue up the A46 was coned off. "ROAD CLOSED - ACCIDENT".

Spooky cows (by alaric)

This evening, we were walking along the drive. It was dark, so I had a headtorch on, and I made a spooky discovery.

You see, the drive is bordered on both sides by farm fields, with a row of bushes and small trees marking the boundary. And the field on one side is full of all-black cows.

The spooky thing is that the cow's eyes light up in a torch beam in the same way cats' do. As in, at the distance away they were, the torch beam didn't light the cows themselves up any more than a faint black sillhouette, but there were several pairs of bright glowing eyes - a disturbing distance apart, leaving no doubt that they belong to something quite larger them myself - peering at us through the hedge.

I'm going to see if I can find a way to get a photo of this rather alarming effect!

Alaric | alaric | Mon 18th Sep 2006 10:22 pm | Comments (1)

Maize Maze (by alaric)

There's a Pick Your Own place near us, just by the Shurdington A46/A417 roundabout, which I sometimes drive past on the way to or from Cheltenham. And for ages, I've been intrigued by their "Maize Maze Open" sign.

I'm rather fond of mazes, so this morning, after dropping Jean off at her nursery, we stopped off at the maze on the way back.

Life being rather busy at the moment, I rarely have time to do something fun except from making empassioned blog postings about technology when I should be going to bed (or when I should be working, so I end up working when I should be going to bed), so I was rather excited about this outing.