Today’s guest picture comes from my Somerset correspondent, Venetia. While she was on a shopping trip, she passed this family of swans sitting quite happily a few metres away from a very busy road. After a series of warm but wet days, we finally awoke to a chillier but sunny morning today. It was veryContinue reading “Up, up and away”
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Seeing the country
Today’s guest picture comes from my brother Andrew. Derby may not have great mountains and lakes but it does have sunshine and cabbages palms. We had a pretty good day here today, not sunny in the morning, but much calmer than previous days. It was inevitable then that we had to drive to Dumfries forContinue reading “Seeing the country”
Benchmarked
Today’s guest picture was sent to me by my friend Bruce who seems to have popped up in Spain. He had an excursion today to the monastery at Montserrat and found a statue there of interest. He claims that its eyes followed him about wherever he went. Look closely at the triptych which he tookContinue reading “Benchmarked”
Getting a raspberry
Today’s picture shows a member of the cleaning staff at a café in Nottingham encountered by my brother. After I posted last night’s blog, Mrs Tootlepedal and I went up to the White Yett to do some stargazing. We were hoping to see some meteors and we did, though not as many as we hadContinue reading “Getting a raspberry”
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