The title says it all really, yuck; yucky yuck yuck yuck. We have two new supermarkets in town (Penrith, Cumbria) and we visit them both, as you do since they both have items that we require. Anyway, one of the stores, not Booths it must be said, may need to address how they handle their fruit & veg 😉 The other day at work I’d taken along a punnet of Nectarines, being on a 12 hr shift and liking to nibble on fruit through the day I was quite looking…
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Where Next
Looking out over Tolkien’s Middle Earth wondering where to visit next. Based on this image of John Howe on top of a hill (I stood peering over the edge there once, and I’m sure I saw some misty mountains in the distance), and of course the map of Middle Earth by Tolkien. I wasn’t sure whether I wanted the place names on or not, and I’m still not sure, here’s the version without the text.
Read MoreMisty Morning pt I
I took this photograph this morning, then started to wonder what else I could do with it, now I have a plan, but it’ll take some fiddling to get right. So, for now, here’s a photograph of a misty morning in Cumbria.
Read MorePlanetary Magic
This evening we had a quick run out to Long Meg stone circle, yes, we were just there the other day but Venus & Jupiter were looking good and the Moon was breaking through the cloud. So thick jacket on, we parked up and I wandered about the stones. It’s hard to relate the sense of magic and wonder you feel wandering around a moonlit stone circle with the stars and planets above. To add to the effect the owls started to twit and twoo in the nearby wood 🙂…
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