Finally!

Today’s guest picture comes from South Africa. Langholm exile Tom tells me that they are slipping into autumn there, but in the meantime, his bottlebrush tree is going very well. A pleasantly warm spring day here greatly helped with our continuing recovery. All the same, we didn’t do a lot in the morning, although the

Onegesius makes a brief appearance

Today’s guest picture comes from my brother Andrew who recently added to his fine swan gallery. It wasn’t freezing this morning but the recent run of chilly nights had been too much for our long suffering magnolia. It was a very sad sight. Mrs Tootlepedal was slightly better this morning, probably because she had managed

A domestic day

Today’s guest picture comes from my sister Mary. She looked out of her window recently and found a visitor doing some sunbathing in her garden. We had another dry day here today, not quite warm enough to sit outside to have coffee with Margaret in the morning, but warm enough by noon for the gardeners

A sermon, a song and a stroll

Today’s guest picture comes from ex Archive Group member Ken. When he visited Wallington National Trust garden today, he came across this creative use of a tree damaged by Storm Arwen It was far from stormy here today as it stayed grey, calm, and with a reasonable temperature all day. We cycled to church as

Better than expected

Today’s guest picture is another from our son Tony. I never tire of his East Wemyss scenes, and I am grateful that he gets up early to walk his dogs before going to work. This one was taken at 5.45 am on Tuesday. Unlike Tony, I don’t leap up in the morning, and for the

A rousing start and a quiet finish

Today’s guest picture comes from my sister Caroline. She got a lift down to the seaside today and enjoyed this view across to Hayling Island. It was a relatively warm day here today, and it was fine as we cycled round to church after an early breakfast. The reason for the prompt start was a

Enjoying a day out in England

Today’s guest picture comes from our son Alistair. He too found some ducks in a pond, but it was a rather classier pond than the little affair in our garden The day started rather sadly when we waved goodbye to Tony, Marianne and the dogs as they set off to drive back to East Wemyss.

It turned out nice

Today’s guest picture comes from my brother Andrew who was doing a little bird watching in the museum in Derby recently. We had a rather cool and windy start to our day, but it was dry. Dropscone was able to cycle round bringing scones to enjoy with our coffee, and after coffee, I was able

Good judgement

Today’s guest picture comes from Mary Jo, my Manitoba correspondent. She has been house sitting in Hawaii with a friend and enjoying the mellow temperatures. For some reason they didn’t go swimming. We had a definite spring day here today, though it was rather deficient when it came to sunshine. The main thing was that

An electric shock

Today’s guest picture comes from my sister Mary. She had a very unflustered visitor sitting on her garden wall a day or two ago. We had a gloriously sunny day today. On the down side, it was below freezing when we woke up, but it soon warmed up a little. Although the temperature rose, it