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Weekly Photo Challenge: Let There Be Light
This week’s Weekly Photo challenge is Let There Be Light In November the hours of daylight here are slightly lacking, and days are often dull and grey. It is wonderful when the sky is clear and the...
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Grannymar’s Sunday One-Liners
Here is my contribution to Grannymar’s Sunday One Liners Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon. This quote is often attributed to the Dali Lama, but is actually from ‘Life’s Little...
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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge
This week’s Cee’s Foto Challenge asks for more than 5 items. There are definitely more than 5 piglets, but it was hard to count how many of them there were there as they were running around like mad!...
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Weekly Pet Challenge
At this time of year when Wilson goes swimming in the icy cold river, he gets cold, so we invested in a ‘Doggy Bag’ for him. It keeps him warm and helps keep the mud, leaves & river away from …...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Grand
I’m keeping with the autumnal theme this week for the Weekly Photo Challenge, presenting a Grand Old Oak Tree
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Weekly Photo Challenge; Community
I was very excited turning on our Christmas Decorations this week at home, but once I found this house I think my house looks a little bit under-dressed! Christmas Decorations in our Community What do...
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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge; Alone
Around here black swans are nearly always loners. There was one on the river at Twickenham for ages, and then we had one for a while at Walton Bridge. I found this one at Black Pond in Esher Common....
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Grannymar’s Sunday One-Liners
Here is my contribution to this week’s Grannymar’s Sunday One Liners “Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you” Aldous Huxley Experience is not what happens to...
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Weekly Pet Challenge
For this week’s Weekly Pet Challenge here’s a picture of Myrtle when she was a few months old! I don’t think she would fit in that lid any more, and I don’t think Lilly would get as close these days!
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Weekly Photo Challenge; One
In Hinduism, the lotus (Sanskrit & Tibetan: padma) primarily represents beauty and non-attachment. The lotus is rooted in the mud but floats on the water without becoming wet or muddy. This...
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Grannymar’s Sunday One-Liners
I found this contribution to Grannymar’s Sunday One Liners in a book at work & had to buy it! Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all it’s pupils Hector Berlioz
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Grannymar’s Sunday One-Liners
“We can not solve our problems with the same thinking that created them” Albert Einstein
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Flood Alert & Wilson’s Christmas Swim
Yesterday Wilson didn’t get to come swimming with us in Hampton Open Air Pool as they don’t allow dogs, even Water Spaniels. Today, despite grey foreboding clouds we decided to take Wilson for a long...
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Weekly Pet Challenge
Very heavy rains are not good news if you live too close to a river, but if you are a Wilson, they spell heaven! Today we took him to Brooklands which is usually a huge area of grass around a …...
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My Best Photo of the Week
I was taking some pictures of the receding flood waters on the river Wey and I like this one particularly. The houses in the foreground are new, but the church in the background was built in 1848. The...
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Weekly Photo Challenge; Joy
Today was sunny so we decided to go to the sea! More water for Wilson Joy!
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Weekly Photo Challenge; Beginning
This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is Beginning. Here is my favourite one The beginning of our married life together
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Weekly Pet Challenge
With all the flooding I have been a bit remiss about posting for my other favourite challenges! For Michelle’s Weekly Pet Challenge, here is a starfish that Wilson found. To help with describing its...
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Weekly Photo Challenge; Window
A photo of a window in Santorini I took while there at our friends Neil & Jo’s wedding in 2008. We are off to see them & their little family in Perth next Tuesday Thank you for bringing us...
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Weekly Pet Challenge
We went for a big long cycle yesterday along the coast, wonderful views, but a bit of a shock to our lazy legs! We went for a quick swim in the evening, though it was a bit quicker than planned! …...
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