When we got up yesterday morning, Paul said “let’s go to the zoo”. So, we bundled the cameras into the car and headed off to Marwell. It was a scorchingly hot day, so most of the animals were doing the sensible thing and hanging out quietly in the shade. Unfortunately for us, this meant that [...]
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I don’t do very well in the summer. I suffer from heatstroke, I burn easily, and I find it very difficult to function once the weather starts to heat up. I spent most of today hiding in my Shed, sorting out another pile of patterns and fabrics to go on Ebay. (I’ll be listing them [...]
Paul and I spent the morning wandering round Whiteknights Lake. I haven’t been there for a long time – probably not since I stopped working at the Library, and certainly not since I moved house about five years ago. It’s a perfect time of year – we saw lots of goslings, lots of baby coots [...]
I had been planning to work on a new dress today, but a slight difficulty with an incredible shrinking lining swiftly followed by an unexpected power cut sadly put paid to those plans! While the power was out, I did something which I’ve been putting off for ages, and tackled the garden. I spent a [...]
Yesterday I had a sudden flurry of excitement when I realised that it was still light at 5:30, so I went for a wander around the lake with the camera. I took Paul’s new zoom lens (75-300mm), and had a play. The photos are here. Mostly the pictures are of Things Up Trees, including a tiny [...]