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Snowy Day

January 6th, 2010

Not leaving the house today. Alas, that doesn’t mean I don’t work, but there’ll probably be time for a snowman or two.

This is Cold Ash hill this morning – that’s a 1:10 hill, so there’s sod all chance of anyone getting up it unless they have a good 4WD car.

It’s still snowing.

So cold

January 11th, 2009

frosty grimsbury

It’s been a chilly week in the UK, colder than it has been for a few years.  The low point was -12 just up the road from us in Benson, Oxfordshire.  This is Grimsbury Castle yesterday afternoon, with the hard frost still sticking to the branches of the trees.

Gerbera Petals

September 23rd, 2007

petals, originally uploaded by Pete Connolly.

Another flower picture, I know – this is boring. I bought a bunch of flowers yesterday, mainly for Jude to brighten up the house, but it also gives me some practice of taking macro pictures. It took about 50 shots on a Sunday morning to get one that I really liked. There’s a very fine line at F6.3

The Green green leaves of home.

September 5th, 2007

leaves, originally uploaded by Pete Connolly.

I took this picture yesterday and was happy with it.

 Today I heard that my elder son, Luke, was getting bullied in school. It seems the fact that he is food phobic is a cause for laughter amongst some of his class mates. He is 5 years old, and yes he is a bit different WRT his eating, but I didn’t think he’d get abuse at this age – it seems a tad young.

Lets hope that things improve. I’ve read the inspiring stories to him, “faster, faster little red train” and the associated series. Doesn’t seem to work, Luke is a deep thinker. I hope he talks to me before this gets to be a problem.

I live in hope.

grimsbury castle

August 25th, 2007

grimsbury castle, originally uploaded by Pete Connolly.

Grimsbury Castle, Hermitage, Berks. Northern sounding name for this part of the world, seems it was called after the god that was credited with building the massive fortifications, Woden, otherwise known as Grim.

There. You learned something.

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