Today’s guest picture comes from our friend Mike who is visiting his son in New Zealand. He and his wife Alison came across this fine flying bird with a fifteen metre wingspan in Wellington Airport. It may be hobbit related. Disappointingly but predictably, we had a rather cold and grey day to welcome our visitors.Continue reading “Stopped in our tracks”
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Not getting the picture
Today’s guest picture is a wonderful photograph of the northern lights seen from his campsite in Braemar by my walking friend Mark who embarked on a four day mountain trek today. Once again, we woke up to sunshine here, but once again, it soon clouded over. Today however, the sun did make some welcome reappearancesContinue reading “Not getting the picture”
Our visitors arrive
Today’s guest picture is a composite of flower pictures taken in our garden by our granddaughter Matilda. She has brought her parents to stay with us for a few days. She took a lot of pictures and these were her favourites. She has a steady hand and a good eye. We had a cool greyContinue reading “Our visitors arrive”
Round and round and up and down
Today we do not have a guest picture of the day but a whole gallery of guest pictures from a guest photographer instead. Matilda borrowed my camera and took a few shots of flowers that took her fancy. I have cropped one or two of her shots but otherwise this is just how she tookContinue reading “Round and round and up and down”
Service not included
Guess whose birthday it was today. Guest picture courtesy of her mother Clare. Finding things to do in the lockdown is tricky. Mrs Tootlepedal decided to put a stone edge on one of her garden paths today. I had a couple of important things on my to do list today, take the Zoe to CarlisleContinue reading “Service not included”
Two walks, three rides and a puzzle
Today’s guest picture is a lovely study of a heron in the pond at Myatt’s Fields in London. It was taken by our daughter Annie. We had another fine and sunny day, both here and when I got to Edinburgh. It was a bit too chilly for cycling in the morning so I went forContinue reading “Two walks, three rides and a puzzle”
Relatively speaking
Today’s guest picture comes from my Somerset correspondent, Venetia. She visited the Hillbrush factory which has a factory shop which sells brushes but not, as far as I can see, hills. We had a day of mixed weather and doubtful intentions. The weather in the morning was frequently wet… …and frequently dry… …but always veryContinue reading “Relatively speaking”
A birthday and a puzzle
Today’s guest picture comes from our son Tony and shows the sun shining in East Wemyss. He tells us that it does rain too and you can indeed see a puddle in the picture. He tells me that his phone does the rather dramatic editing without being asked. A brief blog today as there wasContinue reading “A birthday and a puzzle”
The shock of the new
Today’s guest picture is another from my friend Marjorie’s Highland jaunt. She may have visited Dull but she had a far from dull time, as this shot of the sun behind the hills at Loch Rannoch shows. We did have a dull day here. In fact it was so dull that when I pointed theContinue reading “The shock of the new”
Boxing day
Today’s guest picture comes from Mary Jo in Canada. She was on a family visit when she noticed the under snow tracks of a directionally challenged mouse. As well as family visitors today, we had a few bird visitors too. Interestingly, we had almost no bird visitors yesterday judging by how little seed had gone,Continue reading “Boxing day”
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