Category: Miscellaneous

Odds and ends that don't fit into the main categories usually holidays, photography and personal stuff

Happy New Year!

The last few years I’ve made a calendar from photos taken through the year, to furnish homemade gifts to my close family. My brother clearly values this gift, and has it on proud display in his downstairs lavatory! This year, the power of blogging enables me to display such quality gifts to so many more people – a good two or three, at least.

The Inelegant Gardener (HappyMouffetard) is responsible for some of these, but I can’t remember which – probably some of the ones of flowers.

Cover image – it’s an amaryllis.
January – a brass marmot in the mountains above Obergurgl
February – a dwarf iris
March – a rice paper butterfly (at Chester Zoo)
April – more snowy mountains, this time Orelle in France
May – spring greenery in North Wales
June – calendula
July – Blea Tarn, above Great Langdale
August – the Japanese garden at Tatton Park
September – autumn colours in North Wales
October – jack o’lantern by HappyMouffetard, photography by me
November – fireworks in Val Thorens (cheating, because this was April)

December – frosted nigella seed head
Thank you for visiting the blog in the few short months since I started writing it, it’s been great fun and I’ve enjoyed reading your comments.
Happy New Year to you all!

A walk along the Shropshire Union Canal

Yesterday the weather was so evil, cold and wet, that we scarcely left the house all day – cabin fever set in. This morning things were looking rather better, cold and frosty, but a little hazy – so we set off for a walk along the Shropshire Union Canal which passes close by. In the summer I cycled along the canal for a week, on my way to work, and saw a couple of kingfishers. No kingfishers today, but we saw a heron, a fox leaping through undergrowth and heard the distant roar of a lion at Chester Zoo.

Some photos:

Happy Christmas

 I hope you enjoy a happy week of eating, drinking, playing with friends and family, and looking at pretty lights.

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday