a cold winter

it's been so very wintery thru november and into december. Frost and snow, icicles and blue skies. The knives of ice forming on blades of grass near to Skiddaw mountain being the most extreme of the cold seen so far. Colder it will get i feel

season's lights

Lights in cokermouth: seems these jones' have done the best at outdoing the jones'. but also the local church saw fit to illuminate the graveyard too!

autumn hills

Cum'brurrrr'ria at present

Graduation Day. @ St.Albans Abbey

So, don't we all look well! Nothing like a weekend, getting dressed up, good weather, good company and getting that wee piece of PGCE paper for all our efforts. Well done all!

long time ago when we was...

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first view - lake district

first look at my new backyard:
the lake is derwent water, beyond keswick, a town about 15 mile south of me.
nearby is castlerigg stone circle, which is about 4000 yrs old
http://www.visitcumbria.com/kes/casstone.htm
both the tree and sheep are going in the same direction as the prevailing wind; a warning for winter?

Sea, sand & crabs.

Ah, to be young again...

august donegal

who said 'there's no place like home' ?
the Aghla mountains look down on the homesteads.
family together on the twin's 35th! birthday, makes us 70 years wise all in all.
the Fanaboy 3-a-side football teams.
wee Rosie happy at climbing onto a bench she shouldn't be climbing onto.
Two fine young men standing tall whilst being eaten alive by midges, Jena given to scratching.

thru france - the past

Etaples war cemetary, containing over 10,ooo dead from all parts of the commonwealth as well as German soldiers that fell.
"died that we might live" - epitaph of one

thru france - towns

thru france - fields

As july as.

Hola eta Kaixo,

los dos Julens, Inigo, Ainhoa, Maria, Patricia, Estibaliz y Diego, pero...Guillermo?

and a few more