An elderly couple definitely over the hill

Today’s guest picture comes from my brother Andrew. He had a lovely day for a visit to King’s Lynn where he took this stunning photograph of the customs house. We had a fine day here but nothing like as sunny as that. It was warm and dry when we cycled to church. The choir is

Mirror, mirror

Today’s guest picture comes from my Manitoba correspondent Mary Jo. It is an orchid cactus. Mary Jo tells me that it over winters in her basement storage room and gets no attention. It does well, all the same. We had another very good summer day here today, with temperatures rising to 25°C (77°F) in the

Crossing the Lyne

Today’s guest picture comes from sunny East Wemyss. Our son Tony thought that it was a particularly calm if rather hazy day on the Forth of Forth. We had a calm and sunny day here too today, after some seasonally appropriate early morning autumnal mist. Under the circumstances, a bike ride seemed to be a

Four good things

Today’s guest picture is that very rare thing, a picture from Mrs Tootlepedal’s camera.  It shows the world’s finest baby in the arms of her paternal grandfather yesterday. After a short spell of rain yesterday, the weather returned to being kind and the sun was shining again today.  We hung around until we had got

Not watching birds

Today’s picture was sent to me by my friend Bruce.  For some reason he thought that I might be interested in a pictures of a lot of fungi on a pile of horse manure. He was right of course. I should have gone cycling with Dropscone today but my knees and hips are still very

Limestone

Today’s picture shows the Tower of London.  It comes from the camera of my sister Mary. It was another of those days which we have become all to used to when, if it wasn’t raining at any one time, it was going to start soon.  This put paid to cycling as, at the moment, I