One of the lovelier things about living where I do is that at this time of year everything starts turning purple – a couple more weeks and it should be full-on technicolor!…
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Back as a kid in the 80s I remember going on school trips to the Tudor House museum in Southampton (much of the city was flattened by enemy bombs during WWII so this was one of the few ‘old’…
I am very excited as I’ve just booked a holiday in the Lake District for next month! I’ve never been there before and I’m really looking forward to the break. I don’t know if you know the area at…
These artichokes aren’t in my own garden but aren’t they awesome! I’m very tempted to grow some next year; not so much for eating, more for looking at and photographing (and attracting the bees)……
I don’t want to get all camera-geeky on you but I just wanted to say how much I am loving my latest lens [admin: if you’re reading this, don’t panic, it’s not another new lens, it’s the one I…
Here’s another photo from Friday when I went to Weston Shore. If you’re wondering why you’ve never heard of this south coast beach ‘resort’ before, it’s probably because it’s sandwiched between an oil-refinery and a relatively intimidating, brutalist sink…
Oh dear, I’m really not accustomed to heat, and today it is hot! I’m English, I am designed to thrive when there’s a fine drizzle, heavy cloud and/or mist so it’s a bit of a shock to the system…
It’s finally feeling a lot more like summer (i.e. it’s not raining and a degree or two warmer) but there’s definitely an air of late-summer now, don’t you think? What really helps me to get to sleep at night…
The rain gullies the garden paths And tinkles on the broad sides of grass blades. A tree, at the end of my arm, is hazy with mist. Even so, I can see that it has red berries, A scarlet…