Humming a well known song.

Today’s guest picture was supplied by Sandy.  Because I was in the choir, I missed much of the goings on on the Baton Relay day.  To make up for this, Sandy has kindly sent me a picture of the mounted Cornet carrying the baton down the Kirk Wynd with an escort of flags of all

Sedentary occupation

Today’s guest picture is another of Matilda taken a few weeks ago.  This was sent to me by her mother, Clare and is one of my favourites of the many portraits of Matilda already in existence. In recent days I have often had a plan of waking up early, leaping out of bed and going

Crafty work

Today’s guest picture shows a nice Moorish gate in Toledo, photographed by my brother. In a typical stroke of malice, the weather gods relented from the unremitting provision of near freezing temperatures and delivered a day that was suitable for cycling on a day when I had very little time to spare for going cycling.

Free at last

Today’s guest picture is another from my three sisters’ recent trip to Bath.  Sent by my sister Mary, it shows the Saxon church at Bradford on Avon.  It seems a bit short of windows. We had some decent weather today so in spite of my cold being much the same as ever, I decided to

In and out

Today’s picture is another of a really splendid set of Lake District pictures that my brother sent to me after his recent trip.  This shows Buttermere village taken from a hill that he was coming down. My longest excursion of the day was a walk up to the town to visit the exhibition of ‘art

Treacle Thursday

Today’s picture, sent from one of my sister Mary’s morning walks, shows Kenwood House looking very smart with the wrapping taken off . Dropscone appeared for the morning run and rather to my surprise, we were able to go round at a very respectable 15 mph.  This may have had something to do with the

What a shower

Today’s picture, sent by a fond father, shows Maisie chasing her shadow in the middle of a New Zealand winter. It was an itty-bitty day today with stuff done but no great satisfaction. It started with a routine  visit to the health centre to get a blood test to check that my arthritis medicine isn’t

Much visited

Today’s picture by Rachel, a friend of the family, was forwarded to me by my sister Susan from her I-Pad ( show off).  It shows the siblings at Huseyin’s recent birthday.  What is very strange is that none of us seem to have aged at all. Dropscone had an errand to do so I had

Welcome home

Today’s picture from my sister Mary shows a false bridge on the lake at Kenwood with a perfect reflection.  It is just an architectural feature. After a night of heavy rain (as forecast), we enjoyed a pleasantly warm and dry day again.  I took advantage of this to snap this blue tit getting its feathers

The return of Granny

Today’s picture was sent to my sister Susan by a relative of a relative who had come across her family history site.  It shows our great uncle in a splendid motor. I was in our rather less glamorous motor as we spent the best part of the day taking Granny to Warrington where she was