The sun setting by the Grand Union Canal in Warwickshire…

A summer green scene in Warwickshire…

A couple of new arrivals on the River Avon…

A 100 tonne Portland stone boulder at Compton Verney (an 18th-century country mansion housing enormous amounts of art work)…

An unusual twist on the practice of yoga…


A sculpture in the park (amusing a couple of little kids)…

A strange aroma in a ‘Sensing Naples’ exhibition at Compton Verney (containing – to quote the official describtion – ‘specific aromas paired with paintings to stimulate the imagination’)

My mother yanking the rope of a hand pull ferry to transport us across a lake built by Capability Brown…

Comparing egg sizes! Left to right: the usual size from our bantum chicken Willow; an unusual one that popped out from her one day; and the average brown egg bought in a supermarket.

And a bee on its pollinating mission on a wild geranium in our front garden…
