Monday, December 31, 2012

Sunday, December 30, 2012


Frost makes the spider webs look like string

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Friday, December 28, 2012

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

A 'dry temperate' wreath

In the Glasshouse at RHS Garden Wisley

Tuesday, December 25, 2012





Ring out those Christmas Bells

Monday, December 24, 2012

Pots for Christmas
Aren't we all!

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Friday, December 21, 2012

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Outside the Fringe office nothing changes, just a fresh coat of paint!



Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

The Nelson Monument on Calton Hill, Edinburgh. It has a time ball on top which is raised, then lowered at precisely 13:00.

Tuesday, December 18, 2012


Scott Monument, Edinburgh

Monday, December 17, 2012

Belfry and clock tower of the town hall, Berwick upon Tweed

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Friday, December 14, 2012

L S Lowry stayed here when he visited Berwick

Thursday, December 13, 2012

The Royal Border Bridge at Berwick on Tweed spans the Tweed and is just a few miles from the Scottish border. We spotted it from our walk along the old town walls of Berwick.

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Seemingly endless beaches, but very windy with blowing sand!



Bamburgh

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Vacuum cleaner - not quite a Dyson!



Bamburgh Castle

Monday, December 10, 2012

Sunday, December 09, 2012

Saturday, December 08, 2012

Bamburgh Castle on the North East coast



Bamburgh Castle

Friday, December 07, 2012

Two cockerels - not fighting but talking.

Thursday, December 06, 2012


To Posterity by Louis MacNeice (from Visitations 1957)

When books have all seized up like the books in graveyards
And reading and even speaking have been replaced
By other. less difficult. media. we wonder if you
Will find in flowers and fruit the same colour and taste
They held for us for whom they were framed in words.
And will your grass be green. your sky be blue.
Or will your birds be always wingless birds?

Wednesday, December 05, 2012


Mural of famous authors.

Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Trains run all along the top of the book cases.

Monday, December 03, 2012

Sunday, December 02, 2012

Saturday, December 01, 2012