Today’s guest picture comes from my South African correspondent, Langholm exile Tom. He was looking for something to send me from his archives and found this lofty view of Worcester in the Western Cape, taken from 6000 ft up. We had a calm day before the advertised arrival late tomorrow of storm Ciara, which theContinue reading “A tootle and a pedal, hooray”
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Back to front
Today’s guest picture comes from my brother Andrew. He recently found himself on top of Bosley Cloud, a 1125ft eminence on the Staffordshire- Cheshire border with, according to to the Visit Cheshire website, stunning views over the surrounding countryside. It lived up to its name when my brother was there though, and there was aContinue reading “Back to front”
Out and about again
Today’s guest picture is a follow up to the recent guest picture from Dropscone which showed the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct seen from below. This is the view from above. Dropscone walked over the aqueduct. It would need a team of wild horses to get me across. We enjoyed a delightfully sunny day today with the onlyContinue reading “Out and about again”
At last, a tootle and a pedal
Today’s guest picture comes from my sister Mary. She encountered this impressive prancing beast at Covent Garden. It is doing some serious strutting but as it seems to be standing in the sledge it is supposed to be pulling, it looks like a bit of a freeloader to me. It was cold, grey but dryContinue reading “At last, a tootle and a pedal”
Getting ready
Today’s guest picture comes from my sister Susan. She was told by our brother Andrew that she might find an interesting house in Chiswick. This was it. As we are going to have a very long day in a bus going to Manchester to sing in our choir competition tomorrow, I had a very easyContinue reading “Getting ready”
Low down behaviour
Today’s guest picture comes from my sister Mary who was on my brother Andrew’s birthday trip at the end of last month. This is the Severn at Worcester. We had a beautifully sunny morning here. There was still a bit of snow around and as I had to go up to the Moorland Feeders toContinue reading “Low down behaviour”
Unexpected
Today’s guest picture is another from the delightfully sunny walk near Little Eaton that my brother took recently. Here he was looking across the Derwent valley. By contrast, we were more than a little surprised to find our garden covered in snow when we woke up this morning. There had been some loose talk ofContinue reading “Unexpected”
Here yesterday, gone today
Today’s guest picture is a snapshot of the weather in Manitoba. It was sent to me by Mary Jo. It makes even a very gloomy winter’s day in Langholm look toasty. As Mary Jo said, it provided an excellent excuse for a prolonged lie-in. These are degrees C. Shakespeare posed the rhetorical question, “O, whoContinue reading “Here yesterday, gone today”
A slow business
Today’s guest picture is another blast of sunshine from my sister Mary’s visit to Bath. We had some sunshine of our own today and very welcome it was. It was still chilly in the morning in spite of the sun and my cold has not given up yet so I was happy to stay inContinue reading “A slow business”
Hitting the target
Today’s guest picture came from our daughter who is at the Berlin Film Festival. She saw these birds and wondered what they are. They look a bit like crows to me. My day started slowly and continued at that pace but it was not dull or empty. The sun was out but the east windContinue reading “Hitting the target”
