My Miscellany

 Finally  my duckling hunt paid off. It was a beautiful (but cold,  a heavy frost overnight) morning, and as I had bad earache yesterday I d...

I had a piece of faux leather background left after making my card for the Art Neko blog last week - so I used it to make a card to share he...

...are thin on the ground as we spent three weeks in France, camping, and some of what I made before we left were Christmas cards. Holiday p...

There were some grey days this week but today was beautifully sunny - has been all day, so handknits are almost dry on the line. We took a w...

The mandarins and mallards, with the occasional coot, moorhen and tufted duck. I had to up the ISO almost as high as it would go, since by t...

It was a mild day today, dull when I went shopping early in the morning but getting sunny and bright as the day wore on. In fact, we went ou...

I was coming home from work yesterday, and stopped to watch a large flock of starlings. I'm not sure what was attracting them to land, b...

"Love is in the air everywhere I look around Love is in the air every sight and every sound...."  Well - you'd think there s...

I was out visiting my aunt on Thursday, and went for a walk along the seafront. I really enjoyed watching this little flock of starlings hav...

I had terrible stomach cramps almost all the way in to work yesterday and couldn't wait for the bus to get into town! But as I was walki...

While all the birds found our feeder quite quickly, and returned within a couple of hours of putting food out after being away for a fe...

We got back from Paris to discover that our neighbours had cut down their mahonia tree. I'm not at all surprised, it's never recover...

I should have a few photos edited tomorrow - and a new header for March! Where does time go? In the mean time, a quick snippet of one of o...

We are regularly having two robins together these days - one still a bit of a dimwit, and one who knows that when it hears the door open it...