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Fooof! What a day… I’m going to Lancashire tomorrow for a cousin’s wedding, leaving R and Arthur in charge of the house. I know – that’s what I thought. I’ve curtailed Arthur’s Facebook privileges in the hope of stopping them … Continued

… Well, no – not sun. Obviously. Grey murk would be closer, but that doesn’t have quite the same ring to it. But it’s the half-term holiday here, so despite the gloom and sub-Arctic temperatures the Bancroft Gardens in Stratford … Continued

It’s hard to believe that we’ve been macro-maniacs for a year now – in fact a year and a month, if you add on last year’s May Macro Mayhem, which started the whole thing. I’m not trying to claim any … Continued

Unlike a photo of an owl perched on a camera which I saw in a wildlife photography group on Facebook this morning, and which was promptly and ruthlessly demolished by the Posed Wildlife Photo Police, this shot is a happy … Continued

R and I went down to Cardiff today to take The Animator and her young man The Statistician out for lunch. It was a perfect early summer day (how much nicer a drive we would have had through the Black … Continued

Thank you so very much for your lovely comments, hearts and stars on my 730th blip yesterday – I will try to respond individually to the comments over the next couple of days, but for now I’d just like to … Continued

I should have known better. “No, really,” I said, “it’s a very easy shot. It’ll only take me a few minutes to set it up and take it.” R, who has apparently learned a few things over three decades of … Continued

What to post, what to post…? After a couple of days of feeling as though I’d forgotten how to use the camera, today I’ve had almost too good a day, and even after much culling I still have more than … Continued

After giving the situation long and careful consideration, and forensically analysing all the pros and cons, I have decided that it’s time to have a mid-life crisis. Somewhat late in the day, admittedly (unless sixty can be said to be … Continued

As it was a lovely spring day I decided to leap out of my groove once again and take trip over to the Wyre Forest, an ancient broad-leaf woodland on the opposite side of the county which is now a … Continued