Afternoon Skies. Cheltenham 17th February 2013

Canal walk, Stroud. 15th Feb 2013

I had a wander along the disused canal near Stroud on what felt like the first sunny day in a long time.

This is where the Thames and Severn Canal joins the Stroudwater Navigation.

A short way out from Stroud, passing this gate I could hear the whirr and steady, repetetive motion of machinery and could smell burning coal.

Old woollen mill buildings appear.

Two doors and lifting equipment.

Old yellow door.

These buildings are a part of Lodgemore Mill. Lodgemore Mill is one of the few remaining working woollen mills in the cotswolds and these days produces fine woollen cloth for use on billiard tables and tennis balls.

The River Frome runs through the mills and there is also a lake where I spotted this sign. I think I know what it once said....

...I think.

There are other strange things in the water too.

I head back to the canal where someone has amused themselves with the weight limit sign of a little bridge.

Further along the canal it gets a little muddy. There is a brand new swing bridge which somehow I didn't take a picture of. Further on there are the remains of an old lock.

This section of the canal is gradually being restored. The idea is that the restoration of the Stroudwater Navigation and the thames and Severn Canal will link the rivers Severn and Thames for the first time in 70 years. 

http://www.cotswoldcanalsproject.org/general.asp?pid=2&pgid=1895

There has been a lot of recent construction.

And you can see the old and the new.

Muddy footed I head away from the canal and back into the old town.





Longstone at G's Bar, Cheltenham, 26th January 2013

What's not going on??? Well usually not a lot because if you look around you there's a lot going on really... when you come to think of it.

And sometimes there actually is something going on and last week it was Longstone's turn at the something.

This was a gig to launch Longstone's new LP Pavillion. Find out more here. http://www.wavetable.co.uk/?p=217

I'm not really into writing reviews so...what can I say? it was a blummin' good gig.
It took place at G's bar, Cheltenham. Here are a few pics.

On my way.

Wonky bike rack. There seems to be a bit of a bike theme so far. The night gets more wonky...

The bike thing continues at the gig. Here is Longstone's enormous rock n roll lighting rig!

Longstone. (Mike Cross, Mike Ward, Kev Fox, Chris Cundy and Stuart Wilding)

Chris Cundy tunes into his radio. It's not the shipping forecast this time, though.

Wires.



This small electronic box played by Chris Cundy has light sensitive teddy bear eyes and was made by Kev Fox.



Chris Cundy, Stuart Wilding.

The Green Light home.