Chippenham (Saturday 12th March 2022)

I ran a few errands in Chippenham town centre but found it too bustling and noisy to spend more than half an hour there so after checking out the bird life on the Avon I hurried off in search of somewhere to have my picnic lunch.
As usual families were feeding the ducks and swans so there was a lot of activity, but the mother and son in the Extra ignored all the free grains and practised some bottom-feeding.
I parked in Cocklebury Lane and followed a footpath to the Chippenham-Calne railway path, walking as far as Black Bridge which crosses the Avon a little further north, and back with the footpath overlooking east Chippenham.
I eventually had the picnic at my "outdoor office" in Kellaways, another Avon crossing point. I used to walk along the riverbank from there on a path used by an angling club, but now the gate is locked and Keep Out signs have been put up beside the "office" bench seat, which increasingly seems to be the way of things as so many of my old haunts are closed off.
Good to see daffodils everywhere, especially close to residential areas. I would like to think they were wild but I suspect the are garden escapees or planted by well meaning home owners.

L.
Sunday 13.3.2022 (1237 hr)

Blip #3599 (#3349 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2022 #037/265 + #017/100 Extras
Day #4372 (1026 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2743 (#2583 + 160 in archived blips)

Taken with Pentax K-5 and Pentax D FA 28-105mm f/3.5-5.6ED DC WR lens

Chippenham series
Ducks series
River Avon (Bristol) series

Chippenham Walk, 12 March 2022 (Flickr album of 17 photos)

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Otis Redding - I've Been Loving You Too Long (recorded 9-10 September 1965, Stax Studios, Memphis)
Otis Redding (vcl) with Isaac Hayes (org), Booker T Jones (pno), Donald "Duck" Dunn (bass), Al Jackson Jr (drums), Andrew "Love" Jackson (ten sax), Floyd Newman (bar sax), Gene "Bowlegs" Miller (trumpet),  Wayne Jackson (tr)
Otis Redding was in an airport lounge in Atlanta GA when he and Jerry Butler from the Impressions wrote what was to be Otis's biggest hit, I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now). It was quickly recorded in a local mono studio in Miami FL on 19 April 1965 (with the house band, the MG's, but with Isaac Hayes deputising for Booker T Jones), and rushed out as a single the same month (for some reason it wasn't released in the UK  but was belatedly put on the B-side of Respect).
Come September the album Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul was released in mono and stereo versions, and for the stereo version a new version had been prepared, which not only had Booker T back in the room but also had an extra verse. On release, some mono copies had the new longer version mixed to mono but to this day the original April recording is mostly used, and most CD re-issues are of the mono album, so this stereo version is something of a rarity.
I was playing the new Mojo covermount CD, Hello Operator! The Songs Jack White Taught Us, which includes the mono version.

One year ago:
Chippenham (again - from the town bridge)