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Taken this morning in a shelter below the castle in Aberystwyth when we went for a brief stroll before driving home.
Suffice to say that The Happy Wanderer is now home but very tired - catch up soon with my 365 group.
A bike ride from Cissbury to Chanctonbury Ring on a glorious day. Not sure what the van was doing up there. Dave heads off as I stop for a quick picture.
Finding the perfect wedding dress, no small feat, especially since it is the most important dress you will never wear! Once you start shopping for clothes the seemingly infinite possibilities is overwhelming, especially if you are a picky bride. But do not think that shopping for your wedding...
I took so many images of the skies on Saturday and yet it was this one with the birds that captured my heart, they were soaring and calling to each other
A bracing walk from Goring to Ferring, with the southeasterly pushing us along. Not so much fun on the way back, but helped by tea and an eccles cake :-)
There is a line of gnarled trees across the greensward, which always fascinates me. Somehow the Lensbaby Sweet 50 did it more justice than any previous attempt.
All I could manage today was a play with this feather, picked up on our Wepham walk.
Any help with what it might be from (around 2" long)? Found in a lane on the South Downs.
Spotted this horse galloping through the Library car park at Storrington. The number of banks now open in the village total just 2 now, after the losses of Lloyds and NatWest. Pulborough has none though.
FCB's 52 Week Challenge Week 46: Car Park
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its 8/8/8!
and this is the closest to an 8 or an infinity symbol i could find from images photographed before my camera took a dive through the air.. :)
am sorry to have to be away from your streams
thank you so very, very much for your kind thoughts to us .. which are true soul nourishment
and saving grace
an abundance of blessings, good luck and love! today.. and infinitely *:)
xoxoxoxo
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I really hoped this would happen this year, but is was fitting that it did so on Dave's first day of retirement!
A trip up to Buckingham to see this van, which we couldn't resist. Name as yet undecided, and we are to collect him/her on Monday on our return from a 90th birthday party in Solihull!
To be fitted out as a camper (as Dave says, after it's been used as haulage for our son who moves house soon, and wants to get rid of excess stuff).......
Treasure Hunt 47: Look What I Just Bought
Getting a meal out of the freezer on Monday, I noticed it had a disc of frost and ice on the top. I saved this for another day.
Tried to get a photo across the top, and it sort of worked, although all the ice crystals were melting in front of my eyes.
Another walk, this time one from a Pub Walks book from 1996.
Going up Wepham Down (surely it should be called Wepham Up?) Dave stretched his legs, leaving me behind. I was pleased that the couple behind us didn't catch up with me though!
FCB 52 Week Challenge Week 33: Solitary
A quick trip to our son's, then on to Whiteley Shopping Centre to look for shoes for niece's wedding in February.
There were several groups of hare sculptures with scarves on. I enjoyed the way the little girl was looking over at them as they walked past, but have blurred her out more for anonymity.
Taken from Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Infinite Possibility
[March-June 2015]
The Guggenheim (officially the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum). Founded by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1937 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, it was renamed after it's founder's death in 1952.
The current building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) and built in 1959.
So this happened today...
Swim22 is a virtual swimming the channel challenge oner 12 weeks from 22nd February to 22nd May. There are 3688 people registered on the challenge leaderboard, although around 1000 don't seem to have any miles logged. (This might just be that they are not using the online tracker). To date 302 of us have logged at least 22 miles, and the guy topping the board at the moment has done over 145 miles, meaning that he's over 1/4 of the way on his fourth trip to Calais!
The facebook group has been very supportive, and we were all discussing having a croissant in "Calais" when we got there. This is mine, which kept me going over the last 20 lengths today, as the pool seemed to be filled with treacle. Those who are swimming the return leg, not including me, are promising themselves fish and chips when they return to "England".
If anyone feels able to support Diabetes UK on my behalf, I have posted the link to my JustGiving page below. Just the price of a coffee would be appreciated. My apologies for being rather absent in the group, but I've been concentrating on the challenge!
A trip to Hever Castle. The Tudor Garden wasn't looking at its best, but came up with a Treasure Hunt topic, so I was happy.
Herbs for strewing were fragrant plants used in medieval times that were strewn on the floor to add a welcome scent to the room in a bid to mask bodily and other odours.
A very interesting place to visit, there is currently a display of costumes and photographs from various films shot there, including Anne of the Thousand Days, when Elizabeth Taylor was on set to ensure her husband's roving eye didn't settle on Genevieve Bujold.
Treasure Hunt 36: Herbs
Dave is reducing his hours for a week or two, so we took off on Friday afternoon for a bike ride in the Surrey Hills. We did some new trails, which I found when I was walking last Sunday. Lance (my e-mtb) is fixed and going well.
This interesting bench at the top of Reynards Hill has a quote from John Wedgewood Clarke:
The woods of the Weald
wander beneath their many names,
gates and fences as nothing
to what cannot be owned
up here, the earth raw from unspeakable needs
to view our journey in this ancient moment's gaze
For Macro Mondays, the challenge was to point the camera directly upwards. I racked my brains to think of an idea, then the cat came and sat on my HP print/scan/copier. This obviously reminded me subconsciously of when she managed to press the scan button. The idea didn't come at once, but the next morning I had the thought that I could sit her on a piece of glass in an empty frame (I'd also recently watched a YouTube video with ideas for portrait photography using glass...).
Going for a safer option, I sat her on a table, with the glass propped between it and a convenient window seat of the same height, with the camera underneath.
Irresistible force then met immovable object, and we had a few 'discussions' over paw placemen; several instances of the glass dropping on the macro lens; cat hairs everywhere, and I mean everywhere!
I finally got two frames shot, using live view, remote tethering, a cable release, and a firm grip on the cat's paw, but not too firm as she argues even more then...
Up to London Stadium for Muse. What a show! Although far up in the stands on my own, I managed to have great fun, dancing with those around me, and singing to my heart's content!
This drinking fountain was first installed in the Carfax in Horsham in 1898 to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
In 1947 it became a traffic hazard, and was removed, and remained in storage for 30 years.
In 1977 it was re-sited in Copnall Way for Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee and an inscription was added to mark the occasion. In 1994 it was moved to it's present location in Chart Way. The original drinking mugs, once chained on, have long since disappeared.
Thanks to Horsham Photography for the information.
A trip up to London with Liz to see a couple of exhibitions. I'd been watching Breakfast TV on the BBC, and realised that the George Michael Collection was on show at Christies before the auction the same evening.
Some of the items were a little near the mark, but this was a Tracey Emin one, which sold for £347,250!
Treasure Hunt 49: Neon
A day at Amberley Chalkpits Museum with their Steampunk weekend.
Greg Chapman is a Steampunk juggler. Here he juggles with two knives and a homemade device with two rat-traps.
Trying out the Lensbaby Sweet 50 for some portrait work...
Treasure Hunt Monthly Project 11: November Lensbaby Image
One that didn't go quite right, nor did our ride. My bike decided that it had an extra gear past Granny gear, so the chain kept jumping off between cassette and spokes. We stopped for Dave to adjust it. In fact I ended up with losing 4 gears from the other end, as well as having to avoid Granny gear for the ride. Not that difficult with a e-mtb though ;-)
We both have these squeaky yellow/orange duckies on our bikes to warn walkers of our approach. Many walkers ask "why don't you have a bell", and we explain that we prefer to call out Good morning or afternoon. The duckies are to replace a shout out. However, they seem to catch the attention of people's dogs long before the people respond!
The sun was shining through duckie, hence the total failure on exposure. The only alternative for the day was a wider view, with Dave's bottom in wide view!!
Managed to brave the wet weather to vote this morning, and got a photo of the queue, then in the evening went to Horsham Library for a session celebrating the end of the Horsham District Monthly Reading Challenge.
There were two authors present, William Shaw here is reading from the first book in a new crime series called Salt Lane.
The other author was Juliet West. I read her first book, Before the Fall, as my January challenge (read a book based on a real person or event).
Both were very happy to chat, and it was an enjoyable evening.
The challenge is moving to Mid Sussex next year, as it was so popular, with some changes of topic. I can strongly recommend it if you like reading, and need to get out of your comfort zone!
I have become a library user again thanks to this, which I spotted on Facebook in February. Libraries need all the support we can offer them.
"A cat may look at a king is an English proverb that means even someone of low status has rights. A cat may look at a king implies that all people have certain minimal rights by virtue of being alive. Like many proverbs, the origin is unknown".
This is a neighbour's cat watching me on my knees capturing fungi in the field behind my home. She followed me later into the woodland so I hope she found her way home ok.
A final day of preparation for tonight's Regnum Print Competition, which Storrington are hosting.
Here's some conkers collected yesterday morning; one for each very full barrow-load of horse-chestnut leaves carted down the garden.
Another excursion, this time to the Russian Border. On the return, we stopped at a viewpoint, so I'm spotting these Western Jackdaws lined up...
Treasure Hunt 16: Bird on a Stick
Taken from Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Infinite Possibility
[March-June 2015]
The Guggenheim (officially the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum). Founded by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1937 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, it was renamed after it's founder's death in 1952.
The current building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) and built in 1959.
It all started with two new OS maps, which wouldn't upload to the app on my phone. A call to the OS ended with a lesson in Android OS upgrade, from Jellybean, through KitKat, Lollipop, Marshmallow, Nougat, Oreo to Pie. The OS only support from Lollipop now, and I was on Jellybean or probably KitKat!
New phone day...
I find it fascinating how sizes go down, and are now going up again!
On the bottom row are all the phones I've ever had since the later 1990's.
On top, an oddity of Alex's, then Dave's phones, at least one of which was an Alex offload...