Comments on: Ashton Court https://www.lialeendertz.com/2012/02/18/ashton-court/ Tue, 28 Oct 2014 11:12:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: lialeendertz https://www.lialeendertz.com/2012/02/18/ashton-court/#comment-42 lialeendertz Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:35:27 +0000 http://lialeendertz.wordpress.com/?p=479#comment-42 Tracy - Cross country running. What was that all about, eh? Pure horror. I suppose if you have to wheeze your lungs out while getting soaking wet and covered in mud, Ashton Court is a nice place to do it. Arabella - Im rather impressed that I appear to have made a valid garden designery point! I think they should make me a chelsea judge. And you, with your 'good bones' *wags finger*. Such a beauty! Tracy – Cross country running. What was that all about, eh? Pure horror. I suppose if you have to wheeze your lungs out while getting soaking wet and covered in mud, Ashton Court is a nice place to do it.

Arabella – Im rather impressed that I appear to have made a valid garden designery point! I think they should make me a chelsea judge. And you, with your ‘good bones’ *wags finger*. Such a beauty!

]]> By: Arabella Sock https://www.lialeendertz.com/2012/02/18/ashton-court/#comment-41 Arabella Sock Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:55:11 +0000 http://lialeendertz.wordpress.com/?p=479#comment-41 Good bones! All gardeners should remember that - without good bones their garden will eventually just turn into an amorphous blob. I'm beginning to think I could have done with good bones on my face :( I love the way these parklands hold such memories. Good bones! All gardeners should remember that – without good bones their garden will eventually just turn into an amorphous blob. I’m beginning to think I could have done with good bones on my face :(

I love the way these parklands hold such memories.

]]> By: Tracy Rich https://www.lialeendertz.com/2012/02/18/ashton-court/#comment-40 Tracy Rich Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:34:14 +0000 http://lialeendertz.wordpress.com/?p=479#comment-40 Your photos also gave me good memories, thank-you! Although now a garden designer in Scotland, I grew up in Ashton and my adjacent school's cross-country route was through the grounds of Ashton Court. The highlight was running through the redwood grove, though more truthfully, I was usually puffed out and walking by then. Your photos also gave me good memories, thank-you! Although now a garden designer in Scotland, I grew up in Ashton and my adjacent school’s cross-country route was through the grounds of Ashton Court. The highlight was running through the redwood grove, though more truthfully, I was usually puffed out and walking by then.

]]> By: lialeendertz https://www.lialeendertz.com/2012/02/18/ashton-court/#comment-39 lialeendertz Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:41:38 +0000 http://lialeendertz.wordpress.com/?p=479#comment-39 Janet - they'd better not...I'll have their guts for garters etc... Green bench - thank you. I love that one too, of course. Annie - No not you! Blimey, that would have been an earful... Started on festival memories and it was turning into a very long post indeed. john - Ha ha! Heroic wombling action! She owes you... MarkD - didnt even start on festival memories here, but of course, was a summer ritual to get blisters trecking across the suspension bridge in your best shoes to eat veggie burgers/drink cider/dodge exes. Robert - It was beautiful light. Couldnt stop. Hope you still do write it. Would be very interested in a designer's point of view. Janet – they’d better not…I’ll have their guts for garters etc…

Green bench – thank you. I love that one too, of course.

Annie – No not you! Blimey, that would have been an earful… Started on festival memories and it was turning into a very long post indeed.

john – Ha ha! Heroic wombling action! She owes you…

MarkD – didnt even start on festival memories here, but of course, was a summer ritual to get blisters trecking across the suspension bridge in your best shoes to eat veggie burgers/drink cider/dodge exes.

Robert – It was beautiful light. Couldnt stop. Hope you still do write it. Would be very interested in a designer’s point of view.

]]> By: Robert Webber https://www.lialeendertz.com/2012/02/18/ashton-court/#comment-38 Robert Webber Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:15:42 +0000 http://lialeendertz.wordpress.com/?p=479#comment-38 Oops my next post was going to be winter structure and amongst other shots would feature Ashton Court! I may still do it, but love the light in those last 3 or 4 snaps! Best R Oops my next post was going to be winter structure and amongst other shots would feature Ashton Court! I may still do it, but love the light in those last 3 or 4 snaps!
Best
R

]]> By: Mark D https://www.lialeendertz.com/2012/02/18/ashton-court/#comment-37 Mark D Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:12:48 +0000 http://lialeendertz.wordpress.com/?p=479#comment-37 I spent a late summer in Bristol...I think it was 1983. That was the year I woke up. A girlfriend's older sisters lived there, maybe her brother too...very Bristol, early 80s they were too....think we went to Ashton Court festival which if increasingly dim memory serves was the first year it has been on for a while and it was a one dayer I think. It has made Bristol stick in my head as a very lively, family-friendly, hippydippy, large enough to be multicultural but small enough to get yr head around city. Never been back to Ashton Court since, so thank you for the window in I spent a late summer in Bristol…I think it was 1983. That was the year I woke up. A girlfriend’s older sisters lived there, maybe her brother too…very Bristol, early 80s they were too….think we went to Ashton Court festival which if increasingly dim memory serves was the first year it has been on for a while and it was a one dayer I think. It has made Bristol stick in my head as a very lively, family-friendly, hippydippy, large enough to be multicultural but small enough to get yr head around city. Never been back to Ashton Court since, so thank you for the window in

]]> By: Johntrathome https://www.lialeendertz.com/2012/02/18/ashton-court/#comment-36 Johntrathome Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:56:23 +0000 http://lialeendertz.wordpress.com/?p=479#comment-36 And while we are discussing Ashton Court and a certain Mum, my first visit was with her and, weirdly, I spent most of the time dressed as a womble. I think it was at the Free Festival. Your eyeholes are quite a long way down your nose and hence you have a very limited field of view. You need a minder to avoid being mugged by small children who realise you can't spot them if they keep moving - brats!. I also got locked out from the bus where I could change and, since it was boiling hot, nearly passed out before finding somewhere suitable to de-fur. It is a complete no-no to behead yourself as a womble any where a child may see you, resulting in counselling and legal costs. Hence Ashton Court and wombles are forever linked in my head. Even a couple of balloon festivals can't break that association! And while we are discussing Ashton Court and a certain Mum, my first visit was with her and, weirdly, I spent most of the time dressed as a womble. I think it was at the Free Festival. Your eyeholes are quite a long way down your nose and hence you have a very limited field of view. You need a minder to avoid being mugged by small children who realise you can’t spot them if they keep moving – brats!.

I also got locked out from the bus where I could change and, since it was boiling hot, nearly passed out before finding somewhere suitable to de-fur. It is a complete no-no to behead yourself as a womble any where a child may see you, resulting in counselling and legal costs.

Hence Ashton Court and wombles are forever linked in my head. Even a couple of balloon festivals can’t break that association!

]]> By: Annie https://www.lialeendertz.com/2012/02/18/ashton-court/#comment-35 Annie Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:24:00 +0000 http://lialeendertz.wordpress.com/?p=479#comment-35 I have other memories. Aston Court festivals (not quite Glastonbury but not bad) and outdoor Shakespeare in the gardens of the manor. The space has and continues to host a huge diversity of celebrations, public and private. For children it's a huge adventureland and for adults if they let their inner child out! Was I that friend of Mum's? If so, I'm now too old to remember so that's OK! I have other memories. Aston Court festivals (not quite Glastonbury but not bad) and outdoor Shakespeare in the gardens of the manor. The space has and continues to host a huge diversity of celebrations, public and private. For children it’s a huge adventureland and for adults if they let their inner child out!

Was I that friend of Mum’s? If so, I’m now too old to remember so that’s OK!

]]> By: greenbenchramblings https://www.lialeendertz.com/2012/02/18/ashton-court/#comment-34 greenbenchramblings Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:54:42 +0000 http://lialeendertz.wordpress.com/?p=479#comment-34 Never been there but looks interesting. I love the final photo. Never been there but looks interesting. I love the final photo.

]]> By: Janet/Plantaliscious https://www.lialeendertz.com/2012/02/18/ashton-court/#comment-33 Janet/Plantaliscious Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:08:22 +0000 http://lialeendertz.wordpress.com/?p=479#comment-33 I've not been to Ashton Court in years, since we moved out of the city. Last time I was there was for a wedding, which isn't quite the same as admiring the deer - or balloons. It is a special place though. Lovely to think of your own children evolving memories of their own, maybe including being caught out ;-) I’ve not been to Ashton Court in years, since we moved out of the city. Last time I was there was for a wedding, which isn’t quite the same as admiring the deer – or balloons. It is a special place though. Lovely to think of your own children evolving memories of their own, maybe including being caught out ;-)

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