These 4 were busy preening and cleaning themselves and let me get quite close to them. You can see what lens distance is here. Maybe they thought I had some fish for them. I have been late to MM ...

in Hayes gallery for a meal. It wasn't a C..... one but we did have crackers with cardboard glasses in! Always enjoy being by Thames seeing various activities and lights .

… above Leysin with some of my longest standing friends today, Helen could be 46 years and Francoise, 26 years (extra). Those friendships that mean so much are precious, maturing with age and ...

The gardener has been here all afternoon and I'm really pleased with where we have got to. She's tidied up everything that needed it, and even managed to do the lawns and edging, front as well as back ...

Weekly shop then our regular coffee shop catch up with Bern & Jan this morning. Lunch, a short Millie pups walkies then off to join Mrs K for an afternoon with Archie and Ella. Mrs K then took the ...

Hareshowe- a reconstruction of a typical N.E farmhouse as it would have been in the 1950s - complete with disused railway carriage to augment the Steading.During the 1980s Victorian Hareshowe was ...

After a trip to Dobbies for our "free" gingerbread* lattes this afternoon, the girls and I walked the dogs in the Garscube estate near the vet school. By sheer accident this is an almost identical ...

A misspelling of the second album by the unique Nick Drake, summed up today's weather. The main shows the town's bridge in a dull mist, and the extra shows the coast less than an hour later.

It's been a lovely sunny day, no need for a coat on my walk. Not a lot to take photos of but it was good! This is what I like the best - an autumnal leaf with bokeh. My boiler man finally came and ...

A couple of weeks back, Technophobe and I both blipped the poppy cascade in Wellesbourne. This year the organisers have arranged with the local photo group for an evening session with the cascade ...

I awoke with a sore throat and headache. Looking at our local radar, I completely understand. We are expecting heavy rain for several hours. Jamie called me just as I was getting up. He has been ...