Today’s guest picture comes from my brother Andrew who started the new year by visiting the strangely named Locko Park where he met a fine lake. Our year here started with a brilliantly sunny but rather chilly day. I would have liked to have taken part in the eight mile walk/run event that starts theContinue reading “Hail smiling morn”
Tag Archives: Langholm Walks
Cold comfort
Today’s guest picture comes from my sister Mary who was out and about and saw skaters on the temporary ice rink at Somerset House. It always looks a rather staid way of having fun to me. We had a second sunny day today but the weather gods had another trick up their sleeve and keptContinue reading “Cold comfort”
Scones, scuttling around and singing
Today’s guest picture is another from our son Tony’s walk round the Wemyss Estate. As well as a parakeet in a tree, he came across a curious deer which was looking a bit lost. We were visited by storm Diana today. I must say that the practice of giving passing weather fronts a name isContinue reading “Scones, scuttling around and singing”
Checks and cures
Today’s guest picture comes from our son Tony. He must live in a sunny place now he has moved to his new house because the locals have turned their wellies into a garden. It was a crisp and bright morning with the thermometer in the car showing 5°C as I took the car to theContinue reading “Checks and cures”
That’s more like it
Today’s guest picture comes from my flute pupil Luke’s mother. They were having a family day out in Durham before the start of the new school term and found the cathedral looking at its best in the sunshine. I had a Utopian plan for the day which involved getting up early and being out onContinue reading “That’s more like it”
Hitting the target
Today’s guest picture came from our daughter who is at the Berlin Film Festival. She saw these birds and wondered what they are. They look a bit like crows to me. My day started slowly and continued at that pace but it was not dull or empty. The sun was out but the east windContinue reading “Hitting the target”
By car and foot
Today’s guest picture comes from my Somerset correspondent, Venetia and shows a striking scarlet tiger moth which visited her garden recently. Just lately it has been obligingly raining lightly during the night and stopping during the day. This was the pattern again today and we had another grey but dry day until a little sunshineContinue reading “By car and foot”
Back again
Today’s guest picture is another of my sister Mary’s lovely views of Regent’s Park. The days seem to be getting shorter from a photographic point of view more quickly than I remember but this may be because with increasing age, I get up later on a chilly morning. It wouldn’t have made much difference todayContinue reading “Back again”
On song
It was a grey and gloomy day today and I needed a very cheerful guest picture. Matilda kindly assisted by sending me this picture of her teaching her dad how to swim. He seems to be enjoying it. She takes her teaching task seriously. The forecast offered Dropscone and me a window of opportunity forContinue reading “On song”
Mist out
Today’s picture, ruthlessly plundered from the NZ blog of Maisie’s mother, shows a fashion parade by her new chooks. We had another calm, sunny day today. To make up for this, it was even colder than yesterday and the temperature hardly got above zero even in the middle of the day. It was the dayContinue reading “Mist out”
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