The plant room of the garden centre is beginning to look a little barer as autumn approaches but there were still sufficient interesting blooms around for me to take several images. However, in terms ...

Another challenging night but felt better late morning and enough to cut the grass; after which I was wiped-out. A test confirmed that I've still got the unmentionable, wicked, virus-thing. Son Andy ...

Yesterday we drove home, because F had a check-up at the eye clinic, glad all was ok. Nice to visit the center of Maastricht afterwards, such lovely sunny day today, maybe the last one, don't hope so ...

Today's arrival, along with a pile of Pan Am goodies, including a flight man, luggage label, passport cover and keyring, was the Timex Pan Am Waterbury GMT.

The weather took a downhill step today - grey and dismal at first trending to sea fog as the day went on. Saltburn Pier looked threatening/threatened? under the ...

Over 3 weeks ahead for me in this lovely part of the world , first stop is near Stirling , then travelling to Skye for a few nights, then onwards . Exciting times , memories and adventures ahead.

Another day of blue sky and sunshine. I had a friend round this morning who had expressed an interest in acquiring a few monkey puzzles, so she joined me in a cuppa out in the sunshine, then I broke ...

We had our annual visit to Calke Abbey to see the gourds. Road was closed so diverted onto M42 for while. Forecast was for warm and dry, but it wasn’t as warm as expected. Apples were picked and being ...

I spotted this little frog in the garden when I was doing more cutting back of plants that have gone over, and stopping up the water butts so they're not full over the winter. I moved a watering can ...

The beautifully carved lychgate of All Saints, Salhouse, near Norwich. I had to take my car to a specialist just outside of Norwich this morning. Whilst it was being seen to we took the opportunity to ...

There are all sorts of warnings about possible big wind and thunderstorms this evening but at the moment it's just sprinkled and the sky is dark. It was a pretty sunrise though.

With the weather so nice and warm, we had a drive down to Ogmore by Sea, about forty minutes away. In the summer it's hard to find a parking space, but with the kids back in school it wasn't a problem ...