This watercolour is now finished.showing a view from the Mendips across the Somerset levels. You can see the sea in the middle left on the horizon.

I will get a better photo when I get some better light and the painting has had time to flatten.!

#painting #watercolour #art #Somersetlevels #mendips

Somerset/Mendips folk (or anyone else with experience). I've planned to cycle an extended version of the Wiltshire Cycleway next week, passing through Bath and stopping near Wells. I've never been to Wells before and haven't been to Bath in 20 years.

- Any recommended places to eat in/around Bath?
- Any interesting or nerdy things to do in/around Wells?

Thanks!

#cycling #Somerset #Mendips #Bath #Wells

On this day in 1819, Martha “Patty” More died at Barley Wood in Wrington.

There's a chapter on them in Unsung Women in Somerset, out now.

#mendips #Somerset #womeninhistory #education

Out tomorrow, 20/11/2023!

http://books2read.com/unsung

#somerset #book #readingCommunity #unsungWomen #womenInHistory #historicalWomen #glastonbury #taunton #yeovil #mendips #quantocks #Banes

Chimney at Smitham Wood on the Mendips.

Looks idyllic? That water is polluted with heavy metals.

#photography #southwest #woodland #mendips

Teenager 'felt like a bird' on first solo glider flight

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-66030655

#Flying #Gliding #Glider #Pilot #Mendips #WestSuperMare #Teenagers