Today’s guest picture shows some fine flying birds. They are officially sanctioned street art in Derby, and were captured by my brother Andrew. After yesterday’s uncharacteristically sunny day, the weather gods reverted to type and produced a grey, windy, and wet morning here. On the other hand it was very warm for the time ofContinue reading “The moor and mist”
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Going somewhere
Today’s guest picture comes from our friend Bruce and shows people having a row in Lossiemouth Harbour in the north east of Scotland. The optimistic forecast for better weather today proved to be quite correct, and we woke up to blue skies and bright sunshine. Life is rarely quite perfect though, and a temperature ofContinue reading “Going somewhere”
Going nowhere
Today’s guest picture is another from one of my brother Andrew’s walks. He knows that I like canal bridges. This one is on the Trent and Mersey canal. We had a day of rain here today . I wouldn’t say that it rained heavily all day, but when it wasn’t raining heavily, it was raining fairly heavily. ToContinue reading “Going nowhere”
Heavy rain
Today’s guest picture comes from my brother Andrew. One of his sons took him on a walk to visit this church at Bredon on the Hill yesterday. I found another inch and a half of rain in our rain gauge when I got up and had a look today. Not content with that, it rainedContinue reading “Heavy rain”
A singsong Sunday
Today’s guest picture comes from my sister Mary. She found a very nice day for a walk in the park earlier this week. We didn’t have a generally nice day here today, though it did have some sunny moments. The trouble was that when it wasn’t sunny, it tended to rain, sometimes, quite heavily. ItContinue reading “A singsong Sunday”
September header pictures
This is another of my monthly round ups of the header pictures which have appeared on posts in the previous month. This is not my regular diary post. Numerate people will work out that I am three pictures short of a full month. This is because we were away from home at the end ofContinue reading “September header pictures”
A change in the weather
Today’s guest picture comes from my Somerset correspondent, Venetia. She had a furry rather than a feathered friend at her bird feeder yesterday. We read a news item today saying that this September had been one of the warmest Septembers on record. It doesn’t look as though October is going to break any heat records,Continue reading “A change in the weather”
Back home
Today’s guest picture comes from my brother Andrew. He has been on a short holiday where among other things, he enjoyed the sight of this church perched on the very edge of Rutland Water. As we made our way back from Marlow to Langholm, we had a journey of many parts today. We started byContinue reading “Back home”
A riverside walk
After a quiet morning in, I went for a walk on a grey and breezy afternoon with Mrs Tootlepedal and her brother and sister in law who have kindly been putting us up for our stay in the south. Mike drove us a few miles to Hambleden lock on the Thames and we walked acrossContinue reading “A riverside walk”
A very satisfactory day.
It was the day of the funeral service for Mrs Tootlepedal’s mother. We were blessed with sunny weather, a moving ceremony, and an excellent family gathering at Mrs Tootlepedal’s brother’s house afterwards. I put in another picture of the Thames, taken from Marlow Bridge in the morning, which reflects the fact that it wasn’t aContinue reading “A very satisfactory day.”
