Archie

We met a lovely labradoodle called Archie at Birling Gap this morning. We were going to go to Beachy Head, but stopped before that because I spotted this guy on the wire:



And here is Zebedee and Archie having a play down on the beach.









Archie was very good at playing with Zebedee, but of course he was the bigger and more dominant one. Here he is rolling Zeb like a cartwheel. Just because he can.






My happy little doggie... :)




Some other creatures we saw:

A wagtail



I don't know whether these are goats or sheep. They were in the nearby Sheep Center. So, err.. perhaps they are sheep.

Cheltenham Jazz Festival

Some photos from this year's Cheltenham Jazz Festival. First, went for a little drive after seeing the puppies and before our first booked gig.








Avant garde, free improviser, drummer Han Bennink at Xposed Club at the University of Gloucestershire.



A complete nutter, of course, and a great drummer.



A statue near the Town Hall... A play with flash and long exposure to give the impression that the conductor is moving his hands.



Pianist Stefano Bollani and trumpetist Enrico Rava at The Town Hall.





The next day both our gigs were in The Everyman Theatre where photography was not allowed... so here are a couple of photos I took in between the gigs, at Crickley Hill Country Park.







Minotaur and Hare, a statue near The Everyman Theatre.