Category Archives: Summer

On this day…

Back to the balmy days of 2022. If my memory serves me well I believe that COVID was still a real big thing – my brush with it, that I know of, didn’t happen for another few months. However, we … Continue reading

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Ever Decreasing Circles…

What? This can’t be true! A nice summer’s day in this miserable June. Well yes it can be true and it was the perfect day to slowly criss cross rural east Leicestershire. The election seemed in another world and there … Continue reading

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Dawn…

There is something a little bit special about dawn in the summer. At this time of year it is around 04:00hrs and when the sun comes out there is a stillness. Of course this being 2024 dawn was accompanied by … Continue reading

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Woman’s Work…

Who’d be Penny Mordant this evening? The Prime Minister we never had? (not sure about that – ed). Tonight she faces Nigel Farage and Angela Rayner in the latest election debate after receiving the hospital pass of hospital passes by … Continue reading

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Never Reaching the End…

Another Day Another Anticlimax. The election grumbles on with the Tory share of the vote slowly descending towards, under our voting system, that could be a major extinction event for them. Will it happen? Who knows but as every day … Continue reading

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Only 4 1/2 weeks to go…

One of the few funny things about this election is watching the slight panic in the voices of politico journalists as they come to realise that this is it. The election is not, at the moment, really changing anything. The … Continue reading

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The Things That You Do…

So with Storm Babat is dropping a month’s rain in a day outside what is a man to do? Well it seems revisit old photos with a good dollop of the latest software to see what can be pulled out … Continue reading

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Blue Moon?….

So last night saw the last ‘Blue Moon‘ until 2037. This of course got me standing out in the dark pointing my camera and rather large lens at the moon. So here we are – the last Blue Moon for … Continue reading

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I Once Knew…

A few more images from walking around the local area with an iPhone…summer is fast descending into autumn and these warm sun afternoons will soon gain a sharper edge. The nights are now really starting to draw in. Soon be … Continue reading

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Reach on High…

Humble Pie is being consumed. I know I bitched about the camera et al on the iPhone but it would seem that what the real problem was with the operator. Perhaps a bit harsh and melodramatic but it is true. … Continue reading

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