Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Letters Y and Z It doesn’t seem a whole alphabet ago that this challenge started! To round off: Y is for Yacht: Z is for ZigZag like the lines in this observation tower at a local bird reserve: I’ve very much enjoyed this challenge as it gave me plenty Read more about Y is for Yacht and Z is for ZigZag[…]
O is for the Organ Pipes in St Anne’s Church in the Lancashire village of Woodplumpton…. ….and P is for The Prestonian moored in Preston Marina….. ……on a grey day Thanks to Cee once again for her enthusiasm and tireless work in encouraging bloggers worldwide to think out of the box Read more about Organ Pipes in Woodplumpton and The Prestonian in Preston Marina[…]
“Abandon Ship!” was just about what I felt like doing with this blog this morning. Having come back from a long-weekend Zen retreat in a beautiful Elizabethan manor house in the English Lake District, I was feeling really rather chilled. My intention was to have a look at some photographs that I’d taken during the Read more about Abandon Ship! (or Abandon Website!)[…]
A is for Archimedes Screw and B is for Boat I’ve waited a long time for an opportunity to post this picture of a detail of a model of an Archimedes Screw. It was part of a display of working models to show ways of moving water uphill. These Ancient Greeks were clever! Eureka! Read more about A is for Archimedes Screw and B is for Boat[…]
The Kyles of Bute in Scotland’s Cowal Peninsula is one of my favourite places in the whole world. In Glasgow when I was a child (in the olden days) it was a tradition to take summer day trip on “The Waverley” paddle steamer. This annual treat was called “goin’ doon the watter“, though my English Read more about Looking Down with some Degree of Nostalgia[…]