Kelston Roundhill

Claire Turnham, founder of OWL (“Only with love”) Family-Led  Home Funerals, is offering a one-day workshop at Kelston Old Barn for individuals, health professionals and community groups who wish to offer support to families around the time of death. Claire will:

• share her personal & professional experiences as a death carer & educator, home funeral guide and independent funeral celebrant;
• discuss the possibilities that are available to families who wish to  care for their loved ones either in hospices or at home;
• demonstrate how to prepare the body of a loved one naturally for burial and cremation and how to dress the body in a shroud;
• facilitate an open forum on the ways in which we can change death care, both individually and as communities, to better honour the person who has died and their surviving loved ones.

Kelston Barn at dusk August Bank Holiday Monday 2017: photo by Paul Clarke

ABOUT CLAIRE

Claire is the UK-based Founder of Only with Love and Chair of the Home Funeral Network, dedicated to empowering and guiding families to tenderly take care of their own. Claire is recognised internationally as a leading Home Funeral Guide, Advocate, Celebrant and Natural Death Carer & Educator.

FEES & BOOKING:

• £95.00/person, payable on booking. Includes tea/coffee & refreshments. Contributions to a shared lunch welcome.
• 24 places only (two at concessionary price for low-income applicants).
• To book email Tessa Strickland: tessa@challiscombe.com

Just what you need on a wintery day: a new sign helps walkers find their way down Cullimore’s Lane to the Old Crown pub, and Bath Soft Cheese cafe and shop in Kelston village. Thanks to Ed for making the sign, to team Padfield for erecting it and to passing jogger Gareth Stubbings for the photo. 

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Please ensure you are familiar with and abide by the Countryside Code at all times.

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There’s a new Building the Kelston Barn page on the Bath artists and writers blog. Sue Boyle plans a reading of the composite poem which we created last year as part of the Bathscape’s Walking into Words project.

Follow developments at the new Building the Kelston Barn page on the Bath artists and writers blog.

Sue has teamed up with the writers and local landscape photographer Matt Prosser (whose work features regularly on this blog). The illustrated reading will be at BRSLI on Sat 24 March 2018. For the final poem see here.

Tim Graham took this photo at dawn on 27 December 2017 from the top of Lansdown Lane, just below the Blathwayte Arms pub.

This photo in from Tim Graham. Tim started the excellent Kelston Roundhill Flickr group which he and Matt Prosser seem to be vying to contribute the most and best pics to.

Couple more below taken by me the next day on my phone but a) I dont get up as early as Tim b) I haven’t found his vantage point at top of Lansodwn Lane and c) maybe I need a photography course.

Roundhill at dusk 28 Dec from barn still adorned with Solstice-fest artefacts.

Roundhill through trees from top of Lansdown Lane pm of 28 Dec 2017.

Nice to see a couple of greetings cards with different interpretations of a familiar icon. Both are by local artists, with prints are available on sale.

Nick Cudworth has this print on sale in his gallery in Walcot Street, Bath.

Kelston Round Hill 2 (thanks Su!) is by Nick Cudworth, who has a gallery in Walcot Street, Bath. His web site says:

Nick was commissioned by The Royal Mail to design a set of stamps for the Commonwealth Games which were on show at The Post Office Museum in Bath. In 1999 The National Portrait Gallery in London purchased a painting of film director Ken Loach for their permanent exhibition.

Nick opened his own gallery in London Street, (top end of Walcot Street) Bath in 1999 as an exhibition space and as a studio. He works in oil and pastel and is equally known for his landscape, still life and portraiture.

This print by Lynette Bower is available from her web site in a range of sizes.

Kelston Roundhill is a painting by Lynette Bower (thanks Aliya!). Lynette was born in Keynsham and has lived and worked in and around Bristol all her life. The Room 212 web site says:

A Science teacher by profession for over 20 years she has always had an interest in art and whenever possible experimented with different techniques. Her interest in botany (including at the microscopic level) and love of plants, beautiful gardens and landscapes has inspired her paintings. They are mostly created in acrylic on canvas in a style based loosely on pointillism.