Soup adventure

Today’s guest picture shows that I am not the only one to spot an orange tip butterfly. Our son Alistair took this picture of one spotted by his wife Clare in a local park in Edinburgh. There was not much to recommend the day when we got up this morning. It was raining steadily and

Up hill and down at the club

Today’s guest picture comes from my sister Mary. She recently took my brother Andrew to Kenwood House where they enjoyed the sight of a magnificent magnolia. Andrew kindly stood in front of the tree to give a proper scale to the picture. In spite of a rather gloomy forecast, we had a windy but fine

Pushing my luck

Today’s guest picture comes from my brother Andrew. He was in London helping to sort out my late sister Susan’s affairs and took a moment off to go up the river by boat. I was up early this morning on another gloomy day as I had to take our car to Carlisle to get new

Compost cycle camera (and a crocus)

Today’s guest picture comes from my sister Mary. She visited Temple Church near the river today. It was a sunny day here, which was very welcome after a string of grey days, but what the weather gods give with one hand, they take back with the other. It was -2°C when we got up. I

Second sight

I have stolen today’s guest picture from some which Big Deev sent me to show at the Camera Club meeting on the theme of winter. The day started well in three ways: firstly, it wasn’t raining, secondly the replacement lens for the Archive Group microfiche reader arrived in the post, and thirdly, when Nancy and

Changeable

Today’s guest picture comes from our son Tony who kindly forwarded this picture taken by his partner Marianne from her place of work this morning. Some workplaces have better views than others. I had to be up and about quite sharply today. The new lens for the Archive Group microfiche reader had arrived and I

Not a fan

Today’s guest picture comes from my brother Andrew. He found the River Derwent in reflective mood the other day and kindly thought of my liking for bridge pictures. My sisters in London woke up to a heavy fall of snow today. Here we had another cold, frosty and dry day. It was foggy in the

A satisfying day

Today’s guest picture comes from my walking friend Mark. He took this delightful ‘light and shade’ shot across the valley from Warbla yesterday while he was having a late afternoon stroll with his wife, Leila. We had another very pleasant day here today as far as the weather went, and the events of the day

Club comes up trumps

Today’s guest picture is another from Dropscone’s Orkney adventure. He says that they are having to cope with gales. He doesn’t say if they went swimming. After some overnight rain, we had a generally very sunny day here, although a spot or two of rain in the afternoon made hanging out the washing a bit

Clubbed

Today’s guest picture comes from our son Tony.  He saw what looks like the narrowest tall building in the world on a visit to London.  He revealed that the secret of its narrowness is that it is triangular.  He found a good angle to take his picture. It was dry but still very windy here