Scutt Pics

Always wanted to visit South Africa & finally got around to it with our friends Dave & Alison. We stayed in a great appartment across Table Bay at Milnerton with fantastic views back over the City & Table Mountain behind. By co-incidence, our friend Sam & her partner were staying in CT too. A city of great contrasts, rich & poor, black & white (still), good weather & bad, but above all its a place that does nothing by half. This is a full on land; great food, stunning scenery, history, very friendly people & magnificent wildlife - and at the time we visited; fantastic value for money.

www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-scotneycastlegarden A loverly sunny autumn Sunday, nothing to do & Trix off playing with her horse, so what better than a trip off into the countryside. Since joining the National Trust, I've taken to visiting local sites in thier collection together with those of English Heritage. Scotney Castle, at Lamberhust, near Tunbridge Wells has a very romantic semi ruined 14th Century castle set in very beautiful gardens. Not many tourists this time of year, the 'new' is kind of interesting but the real interest is the gardens. Click on link if you want to find out more.

Early one morning, killing time with a coffee walking through Soho, I came upon St.Anne’s Churchyard. I stopped to watch a group of people taking a Tai Chi routine, reminding me of those I’d seen in San Francisco’s Chinatown Park. But what really interested me was the very large gravestone & strange shed like memorial to William Hazlitt. Born in Maidstone in 1778, Hazlitt was a philosopher, critic and essayist, little read or remembered today, but much quoted by my Father.

Good luck in NY JarHead; great choice of soundtrack Beth !