If you go down to the woods today…
UK Bank Holiday Monday on form: it’s tipping it down.
Good morning from the South Downs.
Wild garlic growing by my youngest’s school. I love the smell of it.
📷 #mbApr Day 21
The Cairngorms in early 1989.
For day 21 of the April Photoblogging Challenge: mountain, suggested by David, aka @dejus.
Littlehampton harbour, with gulls.
Day 17: transcendence, suggested by Drew, aka @drewbelf. #mbapr
A rare image of my long-gone fencing days. I’m the one on the right.
Micro adventures at one of our local nature reserves: an afternoon at RSPB Pulborough Brooks.
Birds and trees and bluebells.
A sobering find in my Mum’s negatives. This is the original Old Bridge in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, taken in 1989. The bridge was destroyed in the Croat-Bosniak war four years later. The bridge there now is a recreation.
The Burnside, Dollar, Scotland, early 1989.
I used to live in fear of doing this. It still makes mes me wince when I see it in a magazine.
Early morning mist over the Adur.
The ruins of Hillfoot House, near Dollar in Scotland. Photographed in 1983.
Even these ruins are gone now, apparently, replaced by a modern new house. My friends and I used to play in and around the ruin as pre-teens.
Mum, March 1983.
Yikes. I need to do better than that.
Well, who doesn’t?
Ah, who can fail to love one of these?
Weekly 7.30am swimming lesson whiteboard wisdom.
A sign of spring.
Super rare night out for me - at the Banff Mountain Film Festival in Brighton.
One of the Dalmatian Pelicans at WWT Arundel.
This duck is stylin’.
Testing out the new coffee shop in town, Clubhouse Coffee.