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Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape this rain!
Today doesn’t feel like summer at all! My daughter is having a sleepover in the garden tonight, but it has hardly stopped raining today so far. I’m not sure should I put the tent up now in the rain or...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: The sign says
Somebody at WordPress really has been trawling through my physics photos, as yet again I find myself able to respond to this weeks Weekly Photo Challenge with photos from Cern! The challenge announced...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can...
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Another Surprise!
For my mum’s 60th birthday the girls, Peter & I bought 99p flights and went on a return trip to Dublin for the day Unfortunately 10 years on, the era of flights for 99p are long gone. For those of...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting take 2
Walking on Desborough Island the other day with Wilson, wrapped up in my winter woollies wondering what on earth had happened to our summer (again) my eye was caught by these beautiful delicate blue...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Curves
Here is a photo from my recent visit to Dublin that I wasn’t expecting to be sharing so soon! As I mentioned in my post for the photo challenge ‘Fleeting‘ I visited The Botanical Gardens in Glasnevin,...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Curves (2)
I found these beautiful mirrors in the visitors shop in Powerscourt House. I didn’t check whether they improved my curves!! Weekly Photo Challenge ‘Curves’
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Happiness is a red convertible
Today I actually got to drive one! At the Weybridge Sailing Club Regatta people were moving boats with a lovely red convertible with a tow bar, so I couldn’t hold back, I had to ask for a go A few …...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: The World Through Your Eyes
This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is The World Through Your Eyes As a foreigner (although I have lived more of my life in London than in Dublin) I always get a thrill from going into central London...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Companionable
This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is Companionable Wilson is one of the friendliest dogs, he only ever barks to let us know there is someone at the door, and when we open it he is so excited to see...
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If you go down to the woods today….
Al’s post about the strange garden he passes on his walks sometimes reminded me of a very strange sight we found a few years back when walking in the woods near Farnham in Surrey Seeing a boat in the...
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I remember that summer in Dublin
Whenever the sun comes out in Dublin in the summer, and people start taking lunch breaks in the park, this song comes into every Dubliner’s head who was around in the 80′s In the olden days, as my...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: The Golden Hour
This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is The Golden Hour In photography, the “golden hour” is the first and last hour of sunlight of the day. Photographers venture out on sunrise hikes or sunset treks to...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh
This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is Fresh This week we have been experiencing the third week of a wonderful heatwave here in northern Europe. We haven’t had a good summer in ages, probably since...
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Photography 101: The Quality of Light
I love the new series of posts devoted to photography as visual storytelling. For me, that is what my camera has been for many years. As a child I wrote a diary, but i would have phases of intense...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh Flowers in my Garden
This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is Fresh As I said in my last post for this challenge this week we have been experiencing the third week of a wonderful heatwave and nobody is complaining as we have...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreshadow
My contribution to this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge; Foreshadow, could better be named ‘Aftershadow’ On our Maiden voyage of our new boat Lady C, our voyage was to bring her from one side of...
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Travel Theme; Wild
This week’s Travel Theme is Wild The word ‘wild’ invokes for me the closing words of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Poem ‘Inversnaid’; What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness ? Let them be...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Portrait or Landscape
I love the new series of posts devoted to photography as visual storytelling. I read this week’s post ‘Finding the Best Shot – Portrait or Landscape‘ and was having a conversation with Jeff Sinon...
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Daily Prompt: Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall
Yesterday’s daily prompt asked us to think of our blogs as mirrors: “What does it reveal? Consider your blog name, theme choice, design, bio, posts… what does every element tell you about yourself?”...
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