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Category Archives: Photography
A Little Something for the Lockdown
There’s still some colour to be found in an English garden, even in November. Have a safe second lockdown!
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Photo Favourites 2019 – 3rd Quarter
A very wet third quarter to the year produced the usual crop of ‘magic’ mushrooms and few days turned out wetter than this one – taken just before the drenching a sad sight on the beach this possibly being the … Continue reading
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Photo Favourites 2019 – 2nd Quarter
The second quarter of the year usually finds us spending some time in our old home town in Spain. There’s always an opportunity to capture something a little different – a squirrel in the Nispero tree… an unwary cricket… a … Continue reading
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Photo Favourites 2019 – 1st Quarter
I miss the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge and since it was discontinued I think I’ve probably tended to take less photographs. However, here’s the best of what I did capture from the early part of the year. Our new conservatory … Continue reading
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A Year in Photographs – 2018
Winter … When the advent of the ‘Beast from the East’ coincided with our first ever central heating failure, and there was a power cut which quickly escalated from being an intermittent problem to a total shutdown, our joy knew … Continue reading
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How Does My Garden Grow… (Not the Weekly Photo Challenge)
I’ve kind of got used to trawling through my photos late Wednesday afternoon for the Weekly Photo Challenge. I’ll wean myself off gradually, I think. 😦
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All Time Favourites – The Final Weekly Photo Challenge
A final favourite, from every season Summer at Burghley House, Cambridgeshire Autumn at home in Dorset Winter in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire and spring in Pont de Vaux, France. I’ll miss the organisers and all the friends I made … Continue reading
Liquid – Weekly Photo Challenge
On the coldest day of the year, indeed for many years, the liquid in our pond began its transformation… … the remaining vegetation froze solid, and it was hard to remember a time when … a different kind of vegetation … Continue reading
My Place in the World – Weekly Photo Challenge
I always wanted to live by the sea… … to be able to walk to the edge of my country whenever the mood takes me, and to look towards the horizon… … and now that I do – I can … Continue reading


