Unexpected house guest

I just went to put the garage keys away, having absentmindedly brought them with me into the office when I got back from posting a couple of birthday cards. Walking into the sitting room I was surprised to see a little blue tit clinging to the window handle. I’d had the back door open for [...]

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Yellow, red and green in the patch

It’s about time to report on the latest from the vegetable patch. It’s all got going in the last month, with lots more growth on the pumpkin vines and suddenly lots of cherry tomatoes dripping off the tomato vines too. Apparently I like things on vines. I never did get around to digging up the [...]

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Shepherds’ delight

There have been some wonderful evening skies recently, one in particular turning bright, startling pink in just the few moments I had turned my back to it, giving me quite a start when I turned back to the window. These pinks and blues have become quite commonplace for the moment, which is rather nice – [...]

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7 Days Summer 2011 mosaic

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NYC: Liberty Island

After a long, but fairly entertaining wait for the ferry to Liberty Island we finally boarded and set off across the water. The boat was fairly full, with lots of people upstairs for a good view. I settled on a bench by the window to take a photo or two, Suzy making a wonderful silhouette [...]

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NYC: Going downtown

This was our big day: lots of things to see and do in downtown Manhattan. We started by getting a cab to Ground Zero and the most helpful taxi driver of our trip took us to a convenient place to hop out and head to the observation walkway. To be honest Ground Zero is in [...]

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Quick visit

Like I keep saying, I’m trying to catch up with things I want to blog for posterity and so it turns out that these photos are already almost a month old. Meaning I haven’t seen Anya and Lily for almost a month now. They’re probably off to university soon. I imagine to study Rolling Over [...]

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Landsberg am Lech

Our hotel in Germany wasn’t in the same town as the concert venue, not least because the concert venue was in a settlement smaller than our little village and didn’t have any places to stay. Well, unless you’re the artist of course and then you get a bed in the castle. Instead we took a [...]

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