This weekend was more like Spring than February down here in deepest Somerset - blue skies and warm sunshine, although still cold at night. On Saturday Jenny and I loaded our folding bikes into the car and drove to Creech St Michael where we parked and cycled for several miles along the towpath of the Bridgewater-Taunton Canal. It was very quiet and we saw only one canal boat on the move. There was mistletoe everywhere, beautiful swans and several concrete "pillboxes" built at the start of the Second World War and still in good condition over 70 years later. These were designed to protect our soldiers whilst providing them with a good field of fire in several directions to shoot at invading forces trying to get inland - a very real threat in 1940. Thankfully the invasion never came and the pillboxes were never used for guns - the one is the first photograph is now a potting shed!
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