In a slight departure from the usual format, here’s a contact sheet of images of things you can do in Wotton Under Edge (where I have been for the weekend). They include (left to right, top to bottom):

• Marvel at the ever-changing diorama in one of the windows on the way into town. The building is now well under construction, but previous displays have focused on campaigns to stop the development, complete with protesters
• Go and see the cave spiders in Eric’s shed
• Climb Nibley Monument and feel a bit funny when you get to the top
• Re-create a number of Caspar David Friedrich’s wonderful high-romantic paintings, but with real mud
• Watch airliners flying south for the winter
• Compare fairy loaves (Rob and Judy have got one too)
• Climb very tall trees and collect mistletoe
• Re-enact Blair Witch Project
• Play on the smell-o-rama bouncy castle

And then on the way home:

• Watch a perfect string of lozenge-shaped will o the wisps keeping up with the train
• Work out how high the viaduct is at Haywards Heath by making a mathematical calculation involving time of day, time of year, and length of the viaduct’s shadow

More from Brighton tomorrow…