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Category: Travel

  • Long Gone

    Poor old BTW suffers hugely from neglect some times, but like a small puppy is always stupidly glad to see me.  So, there are issues requiring attention everywhere we look just now, and I got up at 05:45 today so that I could weed the back garden.  Needless to say it is now 06:53 and…

  • In the Hall of the Mountain King

    Back home from our epic eclipse cruise on Boudicca, to Norway and the Faeroes.  We saw the Aurora Borealis and the total solar eclipse.  We lined up in the ocean beside two other ships from the Fred. Olsen fleet, Braemar and Black Watch.    We went to a concert in the Ishavskatedralen in Tromsø which was…

  • Day of rest

    Having just perused the internet so much that I found myself on a page where shoppers made their own adverts for Aldi, I do believe it is time for me to put the day to more profitable use, so it behoves me to me employ the water heating device and some dried leaves from a…

  • Jaunty

    We have been around a bit in the last week, in fact I have to look up the calendar to remember it all.  Suffice  to say highlights were our time in Slaley, much blethers, some swimming and loads of shopping;  a visit to the zoo with Rosemary to meet the pandas and seeing the Cooks…

  • Degustation

    Ah, foot cramp.  Such an effective way of waking up, I really should market it. Just checked my last post, October 10th, crikey, we have been busy celebrating Mr Holmes’s significant birthday.  As you might expect, there was a food theme here.  We met John and Yvonne in Berwick, at Foxton‘s, and had lunch with…

  • Taciturn

    I have so much to talk about from this holiday that I will not be able to contain it to one page – I have started writing this several times and I keep falling over my own verbosity.  I am therefore posting a few pictures from the 700+ I have taken. London Hammersmith    …

  • Bye Bye BP

    And so it was with very mixed emotions that I left my office last night, for the last time, since we move into new premises on Monday. We moved into the old ones around about the time that Diana, Princess of Wales died, and I feel as if that was a lifetime ago, so much…

  • Serendipity

    Pictures below from Starbank Road, Newhaven at the start of the month.             You can see them as the triumph of the biological drive to blossom and so procreate, or pretty flowers growing in the rubbish.  The choice is yours.  Poppy petals seem to me to be about one micron…

  • Drones

    Last weekend while Paul was embarking on Project Gate Paint, I went to the end of our road (seriously) to capture some images of the wild flowers planted there by the Fife Parks & Rec people.   They were busy buzzing with bumble* bees and are such a lovely sight to behold.  We drove to Cellardyke…

  • Fresh out of Lotus

    If I had a superpower I would like it to be the ability to stay awake during the dvd and stay asleep in bed.   Since i have clearly lucked out on that one, here I am with my book of New York poetry after having played away all my lives on Candy Crush and finished…