[One of sculptural artist Hannah Lim’s ‘reimaginings’ of a Chinese snuff bottle] A busy evening last night with two art preview shows to attend. Luckily no great distance between …

A busy evening last night with two art preview shows to attend. Luckily no great distance between the venues. You can hear more about No 1 Royal Crescent's new gallery exhibition elsewhere on this blog. It's a display of visual artist Cornelia Parker's photogravure prints, and features her take on the historic glass and found objects that inspire her work. Open now until May 10th. However, my first port of call was the wonderfully exotic Museum of East Asian Art, which was literally opening for the season with 'Reimaginings', a new exhibition by sculptural artist Hannah Lim.

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As a visual artist, Cornelia Parker is likely to come to mind first as the woman who had the British Army blow up a shed so she could suspend the fragments in a gallery installation, as if recreating a frozen explosive moment. She also famously put actress Tilda Swinton in a glass case on public view and even created a scaled-down version of the house in Hitchcock's movie Psycho for the roof garden of the New York Met. Tomorrow sees the opening of an exhibition of her work in Bath in the gallery at No 1 Royal Crescent.

Taking and fetching children to and from school often creates real traffic problems around the school gates, but Bath & North East Somerset Council is proposing to launch two School Streets within the city to create safer, healthier journeys for children. Consultations will run until 26 February on proposals for School Streets outside Widcombe Infant & Junior Schools and St Stephen’s Primary Church School in Lansdown. School Streets introduce short, timed vehicle restrictions at the start and end of the school day. They reduce congestion and support children’s health and wellbeing by encouraging more parents and children to walk, scoot or cycle to and from school.  

It’s not only the proposed budget that B&NES cabinet members will be discussing when they meet next Thursday. Also on the agenda are measures to transform adult social care services to en…

It's not only the proposed budget that B&NES cabinet members will be discussing when they meet next Thursday. Also on the agenda are measures to transform adult social care services to enable them to better meet the needs of residents across the authority. Bath & North East Somerset Council says it's committed to providing high-quality services that keep pace with the area’s growing and ageing population. The proposals include a review of support arranged for adults with learning disabilities, autism and neurodiversity (LDAN), as well as those needing home care services or care homes.

[Photo credit: West of England Mayoral Combined Authority / Simon Chapman.] More B&NES schools are joining the national free school breakfast club programme. West of England Mayor Helen Godwin …

More B&NES schools are joining the national free school breakfast club programme. West of England Mayor Helen Godwin has welcomed the next phase which will see 15 more schools across the West offering free breakfasts from April, bringing the total to 24. The scheme, backed by an £80 million investment from government, is designed to help families, reduce child hunger, and ensure children start the school day ready to learn. Recent expansions mean half a million more children will benefit nationwide, with schools receiving simplified funding to provide high-quality breakfast provision.

Did you know February takes its name from Februa, which just happened to be a Roman festival of purification. The name comes from the Latin word meaning 'to cleanse.' Well, it must be said that streets across the nation have been getting a good wash with almost constant rain, day after day. These are our city centre streets at 9 am this morning. Has anyone asked the Met Office what is going on? Must we accept constantly wet winters from now on? Do I need to invest in companies that produce wet weather gear, wellies and umbrellas?

Spotted in Royal Victoria Park.

Spotted in Royal Victoria Park.

An email from B&NES has just shown up on my desktop and, funnily enough, it mentions something I was recently discussing with friends . It was a rumour that B&NES would be introducing charg…

An email from B&NES has just shown up on my desktop and, funnily enough, it mentions something I was recently discussing with friends . It was a rumour that B&NES would be introducing charges for Discovery Cards and reducing the open hours for waste and recycling centres. Well then, it's good to hear neither action is proposed, though in this message about the next financial year's budget, steel yourselves for an increase in Council Tax. Bath & North East Somerset Council  says it is proposing a balanced budget that focuses on protecting the most vulnerable and supporting residents’ priorities, including road maintenance, keeping streets clean and safe, and improving the local environment.

Two brothers who underwent successful surgery for prostate cancer within just weeks of each other at the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust have called on men with a family history of the cancer to get themselves checked. David and Robert Taylor both had successful robotic radical prostatectomies, carried out by the surgical urology team using the RUH’s Da Vinci surgical robot. A radical prostatectomy is a surgical procedure that removes the prostate gland and some surrounding tissue to treat prostate cancer. It's the primary treatment for prostate cancer that hasn't spread beyond the prostate.

It was a clear choice. Go to the gym and work on muscle loss, or go greet a giant inflatable sweet outside the new M and S store in SouthGate. By the time I reached the former Debenhams store - now raised and revamped like a commercial phoenix by those lovely people at 'Marx and Sparks', the doors had been flung open, and it was down to business. Going up! I was told it's estimated 650 people had queued around the outside of the building as far down as Bath Spa Station to witness the official opening and - for the lucky ones - to collect their Percy Pig tote bag.

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Out and about today – despite the rain. Now home, drying out and talking about everything from duck ponds to a new opening date for Jolly’s.

Out and about today - despite the rain. Now home, drying out and talking about everything from duck ponds to a new opening date for Jolly's.

Night birds.

Night birds.