La vie en rose

Today’s guest picture comes from my Somerset correspondent Venetia.  She saw these de-icers at work at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam on her way to America.  They would make me very nervous if I was flying. We had a day out today.  One of Mrs Tootlepedal’s fellow sopranos from our Carlisle choir had invited us for

All hail

Today’s guest picture is another from Dropscone’s visit to Crail to act as referee at a golf competition earlier this month.  As well as looking as the fine views, he also saw some golfers.  There may be worse places to play golf than Crail. They forecast a chilly night and we got one.  They forecast

I’ve looked at life from both sides now

Today’s picture shows a small flock of chaffinches waiting to say goodbye to Mrs Tootlepedal and me as we left them to fend for themselves for a day. They had to wait a bit because before we left, I went round the morning run with Dropscone.  Having completed 1000 miles on his slower winter bike,