PhotoDiary: New Year

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Saturday, January 1, 2022

01/01/2022 Happy New Year

The maximum temperature here today is 15C, minimum 9⁰C. Blue skies but with quite a lot of clouds. Wind 16km/h South-Easterly winds with gusts up to 30 km/h. Dry at present but rain is forecast from tomorrow for the rest of the week. Thursday morning we measured 46mm overnight!

Some more recent photos, eventually I will get back to all the photos that I have not had time to edit from last year!!

Watching France see the New Year in on TV at Chantilly last night.

A bit of Christmas cheer amongst the potplants.

Friends who could not travel to the UK at the last minute, because of COVID, joined us for Christmas dinner so the table was laid for four.

The two of us on Christmas day.

27/12/21 a tough rose hanging on in winter.

30/12/21 Top : Viburnum tinus and cotoneaster berries.
Bottom : Calendula and another surviving rose that amazes me.
The centre tree is a Ginkgo biloba,

31/12/21 Calendula.

I think this is one of the Blackbird (Turdus merula) youngsters being bombed by a chaffinch!

European robin (Erithacus rubecula).

The last sunset of 2021

Take care everybody, keep well and please stay safe in these difficult times.

My local list of wildflowers. (91 Species 02/12/2021).

Saturday, January 5, 2019

05/01/2019 Happy New Year everyone.

I have been regularly walking the canal to keep myself relatively fit. It has been cold, but with almost no rain so far and little wind, even I who loves the sun have enjoyed my walks. If you have not seen my previous two posts then there is more information about the canal there.

Mist on the Kennet and Avon Canal.

As above.

One of the locks.

George Bar Bistro.

Caen Hill Locks are the longest continuous straight flight of locks in the UK.

This dog obviously decided that she had walked far enough and refused to move 😉

Catkins.

Quakers walk away from the canal

Squirrels in the trees...

and a very excited dog saw them and could not stop yapping.

Sunset over Devizes.

Loved this pair in the sidecar seen in Devizes.

Reflections on the canal.

The wharf.

No, it is not real but very lifelike.

Still waters run deep.

Devizes is a truly historic town and so full of history. I try not to put too much information on the photodiary, so I have posted about the town on My Life In the Charente 2 with lots more information which might interest many of you.

Sunday, January 1, 2017

01/01/2017 Happy New Year

Maximum temperature 9C, minimum -1C. 22 km/h SW wind. 1mm rain.

My apologies for lack of photos. The cold and damp UK weather badly affected my lungs and I spent Christmas in bed feeling dreadful. Shortly afterwards, both Nigel and FIL went down with heavy colds, and although we are all on the road to recovery, I am still coughing.

We had a very cold (well below zero!) drive home, with mists most of the way. On arrival, we both slept for about 13 hours and we are still recuperating from the two day journey.

29/12/16 At the beginning of our drive, the sun rising over Salisbury Plain ...

and the car satnav screen is showing that it is just -6C!!

Strange light and misty patches through southern England as we drive on towards the Chunnel

The sun glare through the mist produced some interesting effects.

Back in northern France, where stayed overnight....

in Rouen. The wonder wheel where children seemed to be having fun, despite the cold that bit into us.

A man made rink close to our hotel.

30/12/16 Heavy mists with the trees full of ice as we head home the next morning...

as above...

and nearing home the sun gives a bit of colour to the frosty photos.

I am amazed though back home, today we still have a little colour in the winter garden. Hellebore above...

Calendula...

The roses are still surviving though it seems the weather here was much milder than the UK...

as above...

as above.

It might take me some time to get back up to speed but I will take photos and post when I can. I will be trying meanwhile to catch up with My Life in the Charente.