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my route to the garage to collect my car (from its MOT) took me past this family of swans on the river outside Quay Arts

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taken in the boiler room at Brading ...... there is something oddly interesting about interconnecting pipes

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this is what the great great grandsons of exceptionally famous poets currently wear on their heads these days ......

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had a good day at Ardingly today exploring endless antiques stalls ..... something for everyone here - cases seem to be an in thing

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i nearly needed the services of this supplier to settle an argument ...... but desisted

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Sunday was a nice enough day to venture down Shanklin Chine and on to the beach where we had a picnic lunch. I love the Chine for its greenness ....

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Saturday, and the whole island prepares for the arrival of the Olympic torch ...... here it comes down Newport High Street, and I have the luxury of a view from the first floor window

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Freshwater Bay - rather more dramatic in winter when the breakers crash over the rocks

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it was a beautiful journey to Brading this morning - here we are looking across to Ryde and the Solent.

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jill had lots of visitors today ....... seven coach loads of children and others had arrived by opening time!

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it may look vaguely culinary but is actually a resin cast of a dinosaur egg!

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monday was a busy day with little opportunity to take advantage of the outdoors ....... so i scouted around the house for a photo ......

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Sunday has been an interesting day what with Wimbledon, Silverstone and people in the streets behaving oddly .......

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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ...........

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friday started off ok, then it rained and it rained and it poured

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goodbye london, for a while.

i wish i could say i was sorry to leave you.

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washing. cleaning. tidying. dusting. hoovering.

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just when the sun is out and i could be outside doing useful things i'm stuck at work the whole day :o(

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detail of linen fold panels of a door just outside my office ...... the oak glows with age ......

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a BEEmergency at work, today.

our bees were disturbed by some local drilling,

and swarmed onto a nearby building.

i would have flown off in a huff if they were making that kind of noise outside my front door, to be honest.

anxiously awaiting a visit by the beekeeper to coax them back to their hive.

the boys are watching the godfather film tonight.

but it's way too long for me; i'm going to hit the sack and dream of contented bees.

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celebration time!

two years ago, we tied the knot.

we had cream teas on the lawn,

we reeled and jigged, we had a blast.

man, that was a good day.

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a study in yellow:

a subconscious wish for some sunshine, i think.

monday again, and i wish i had a couple of days at home 

just to sort the place out.

it makes me feel uncomfortable when it's a mess.

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Happy anniversary H&M ! :o)))

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i prevailed upon the little yellow critters to stay by offering them a place of their own ......

we are just over half way on this blog !!!

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on the green of Chichester Cathedral are lots of amazing sculptures by Philip Jackson

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explored east grinstead which has some rather fine medieval buildings

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i went on my favourite walk today:

up the lane, through the woods and up a steep hill under a tunnel of trees

beyond which you can't see anything until you're practically on top,

at which point the trees open out onto an amazing vista.

it knocks me dead, every time.

but even so, the anticipation is the best part.

i lay down in the field in the sunshine and listened.

it was bliss.

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we walked up culver down to watch the round-the-island race

(which this year was anti-clockwise).

it sure was gusty up there,

but the clouds skudding across the sky so quickly made amazing shadows on the sea.

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i actually went to bed before remembering that i hadn't taken a photograph.

had to get up again and snap something nearby ...

i really must try harder!

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surveillance outside waterloo station

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there's almost nothing nicer

than picking wild flowers from the garden ...