Today’s guest picture is another from my sister Mary’s portfolio of London’s parks. With the thermometer at 2°C, it was warm enough for yesterday’s snow to be melting slowly but cold enough to keep me off the roads on my bike. As a result, I girded my loins and did ten very boring miles onContinue reading “Nowhere and somewhere and then some”
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Unsatisfactory
Today seems to be World Book Day and to celebrate this, my Newcastle correspondent has sent me a picture of her daughter Hannah with just a few of the books she is reading. The temperature was a little up this morning. This would have been welcome if the wind hadn’t also got up and theContinue reading “Unsatisfactory”
A leap of faith
Today’s guest picture has been sent by Langholm exile Joyce, now resident in the wilds of Canada. She thinks that I ought to stop complaining about the weather here. It was thirty degrees C warmer than that here today and the wind wasn’t too bad so I got the speedy bike out after breakfast andContinue reading “A leap of faith”
A proper Sunday
Today’s picture, sent from NZ by my brother Andrew, shows my sister-in-law Catherine sitting beside a boat that was probably the most famous vessel in the world in 1985. Of course it is summer in NZ but far from that over here. We had a typical winter’s day with a brisk wind and plenty ofContinue reading “A proper Sunday”
Top of the table
Today’s picture shows a robin making every effort to get on the Christmas card. The rain had stopped after two days and Dropscone and I were able to go round the morning run in comparative comfort. A strong south westerly wind made it sensible to use the traditional route and we had to run theContinue reading “Top of the table”
