Bewitched

Today’s guest picture comes from my brother Andrew. The river in Derby has continued to be high and although the river looks fairly calm in his picture, the swing bridge remains open to avoid the possibility of it being damaged by trees floating down the river. Luckily other bridges are available for access to coffee

Swings and roundabouts

Today’s guest picture comes from my brother Andrew. He visited Kedleston Hall today. It has a lake with a good stone bridge. We had a fine day here, with quite a bit of sunshine to go with a fair bit of cloud, but no rain. The morning was spent getting ready to welcome our daughter

Farewell to our visitors

Today’s guest picture is another of my brother Andrew’s shots from his trip along the Thames yesterday. He has a lot of things to do just now, and he says that his head is spinning a lot faster than the London Eye was going round. Annie cooked some cheese and marmite pinwheels yesterday, and they

A Tootlepedal day

Today’s guest picture is another from my brother Andrew. He is still in London helping to sort out my sister’s affairs. He found time for a trip along the Thames today. It froze over night here but the temperature soon rose above freezing as the morning went on. It didn’t show any enthusiasm for actually

Up to a point

Today’s guest picture comes from our daughter Annie. It shows our granddaughter Evie leading me across the hill this afternoon. The guest picture takes away quite a lot of the tension that I was hoping to build up regarding whether the weather would lighten up in time to let us get out for a walk.

Meeting but not greeting

Today’s guest picture comes from my sister Mary who visited Stourhead with her friend Venetia.  As she knows that I like a bridge, she sent me this picturesque example. I am still quite tired as having a very youthful visitor is not straightforward.  Getting down with the kids is fine. It’s getting up again that