Welcome to the Rudloe and environs website.
Here you will find news, articles and photos of an area that straddles the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in north-west Wiltshire.
Contributions in the form of articles or photos are welcome. Even those with completely contrary views to mine!
Thanks to the website builder 1&1 and Rob Brown for the original idea.
Rudloescene now, in January 2014, has a sister, academic rather than anarchic, website about Box history here: http://www.boxpeopleandplaces.co.uk/
It contains thoroughly professional, well-researched articles about Box and its people.
Contact rudloescene through the 'Contact' page.
Bath, World Heritage City - Lansdown's up and Twerton's down. In fact, most of it is down in my estimation as (as usual) the walk into the city was accompanied by the screams of emergency vehicle (ambulance) sirens. Even here, in Rudloe, each time I ventured out into the garden yesterday doing chores, an emergency vehicle siren provided the background sound of the countryside. We shouldn't be living like this - old style alarms (dee-dah, duddle-de-duh) were immediately recognisable but much easier on the ear and environment. Many sensible countries (in Europe) still use these 'old' alarms; in fact 'screaming' alarms are banned by city ordinances from urban environments because of their disturbing effect. But here, no, we couldn't do that - we love to make a drama out of a crisis.
Back to Wednesday's (12th July 2023) walk - the title pictures show prolific nettle growth in Bathampton Meadows and a question 'What are you grateful for today' on the gate of a cottage on the Kennet & Avon canal towpath. I was and am grateful for waking up.
"Black, Johnny, black" - see the Fast Show e.g. Black, Johnny, black