Wet morning - Y at BJ - 57F and 3mph Southerly

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A collage of yesterday's WoW. For any newcomers, it means Walk On Wednesday by the way. As you can see the weather was kind and, fortunately, I am not experiencing any extreme after-effects. Tired but happy tired, as Y will be this evening on her return from granny-duty at Burton Joyce.

She has taken her new Fuji compact and, when we spoke on the phone at lunchtime she told me she had already taken some snaps in the Park.

This mornings weather was not good but now in the late afternoon the sun is trying to break through. The sun is shining but it is still raining so there should be a Rainbow somewhere.

Yesterday, in the Elton area, the hedgerows were packed with interesting wild-flowers and I can't decide if this is Herb Robert, or Red Campion ? The hairy bud-cases and stems are common to both. I'm pleased with my D80 with the 70-300mm fitted because the colour is absolutely right - if anyone feels more certain of the identification I am, as always, willing to yield.

Today I have had a restful day - Telegraph from cover to cover, fair whack at the crossword, naps, an excellent afternoon radio play about George V1's speech to the nation on Coronation Day and the problems surrounding the poor chap's stammer , the play was very sensitively written and performed ......., then a few computer jobs....... life's not bad is it ? .......

And fingers crossed, at the moment I feel well up to going to EPS this evening. I'm pleased because it is the Presentation Evening and I want to be able to clap and cheer enthusiastically, in the right places.

Y thinks she will give it a miss though because after the tedious return bus journey she will definitely be 'all in'.


My responses to your previously posted comments

Bob ..... Perhaps Llama Loin Medallions might have a certain cachet.

I too have had Jasmine Tea in Chinese Restaurants and enjoyed it. Whichever way I try Earl Grey I don't like it. It is the bergamot. However I am assured that a used Earl Grey tea-bag, allowed to cool, is an excellent cure for a cold sore - because of the bergamot.

Re fish ..... The Fish Counter at our local Morrisons is surprisingly good, and we also buy more exotic things frozen from Lidl.

I too mourn the lack of LocoScript - an excellent word-processing programme with many user friendly features.

Jill .... Strange about London's dearth of aubretia. I would have expected it to flourish there.

Re Llamas.... I suspect that you didn't open yesterday's link to the Wikipedia page about Llamas. It tells you about them .... and their uses etc., here it is again to save you going back.

Just to refresh people';s memories - if, in the blog, you come to something underlined and in a different colour, it will usually be a live link to a relevant page or website. A good way to check is to hover your cursor over it. If the arrow changes into a hand, click it because it will be a link.

Helen C ..... Glad you liked the Nine Stones link and I agree that Brinsley Llamas are better !

I think you pressed the poublish button twice or something. But don't blame yourself because there seems to be a blogger-glitch around. Recently Y has written a comment, only to find when she tries to 'publish' that the whole thing has vanished. I know Bob prepares his in 'word' and then copy/pastes into blogger.

But, for a normally brief comment, the method sounds tedious.

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Quotation time .....

"The llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat, like an unsuccessful literary man"

Hilaire Belloc

Sleep tight - Catch you tomorrow - or later this evening depending on EPS

p.s. I only stopped at EPS for the Annual Exhibition and then made my apologies and left before the actual presentations. It was good to see such an excellent range of quality pictures.

Much better then NEMPF. Our WoW members were well represented in the awards and I will post further particulars in due course.

It gives me great pleasure to publish the picture on the left. Y took it with her new camera from the Television at Burton Joyce. The TV has a wire leading into it from a camera in the Tit nesting box outdoors in a tree. The camera is a black & white one which accounts for the absence of colour in Yvonne's picture. Pretty damn good though ! In my opinion.

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