At a standstill

Today’s guest picture comes from my brother Andrew. It shows an example of the increasingly common outbreak of post box bothering which is becoming all the fashion these days. We had hoped to be able to go and sing in the church choir this morning, as this wouldn’t require any great travelling. However, it was

Just one shade of grey

Today’s guest picture, another from Stephen’s Queen Charlotte Sound hike in New Zealand, was specially chosen to add a splash of colour to a very grey day here. It was raining when we got up, and it is probably still raining as I write this in the evening, but I am not going out to

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

Mistified again

Today’s guest picture comes from ex archive group member Ken. He was rather unimpressed by this reservoir in Central Park, New York, but I think that I have probably seen it looking better on sunnier days in several films. We had a stark contrast in the weather today here after yesterday’s glorious sunshine. It rained

I wandered lonely in a cloud

Today’s guest picture comes from Sandy. He has temporarily forsaken Langholm for some sun, sea, and sand in Benidorm. He was impressed by this tree. We could have done with a bit of that sunshine here today but it wasn’t to be. It was reasonably warm (10°C/50°F) by the afternoon and pretty calm too, but

First steps

Today’s guest picture comes from our friend Mike Tinker, who is on his way back from New Zealand. He sent me this charming picture of Pollard Park in Blenheim before he left. We woke to sunshine and 5°C. This was almost as good as the day got, and as I start this post in the

Pushing on

Today’s guest picture comes from my friend and ex teaching colleague Ada. She is taking in some rays in Tenerife and enjoyed meeting some wild poinsettias there while on a walk today. We had another basically cold and grey day here today. Scraps of sunshine appeared now and again and as the north-easterly wind was

Stopped in our tracks

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.

Songs of various types

Dropscone has been on holiday in Malta and today’s guest picture, which he sent to me from there, indicates that he was probably not starving, even though there don’t seem to be any scones on offer. We had another grey and blustery day here today, but it stayed dry apart from a smattering of drizzle

A gentle day

Today’s guest picture comes from our daughter Annie. She recorded another cause for alarm for the shepherds of Stockwell in London. She tells me that she could have got a better picture this morning if she had gone outside, but it was just too cold. No shepherds were alarmed in Langholm as we woke to