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A Long Weekend In Wales

Ripe Apples

Our friends Ben and Anna recently ‘escaped to the country’ and bought themselves a lovely bungalow in north Wales. In search of sunshine we spent a long weekend staying with them and it’s fair to say that we really didn’t want to come back!

This album contains 30 photos and 2 comments.

A Road Trip From Skye To Torridon To Aviemore

The Black Cuillin And My Black Car

Following on from our weekend at Plockton my good lady and I continued our road trip to the wilds of Torridon in north west Scotland. To midge country and beyond!

This album contains 26 photos and 5 comments.

A Couple Of Days In Plockton

Sun Bathing

Myself, my good lady and friends Nick and Siobhan spent a couple of days in Plockton, an idyllic village in the north west of Scotland. Oh, the sun was shining too!

This album contains 27 photos and 3 comments.

Some Flowers And Veg Growing In My Garden

The Humble Bumble Bee

Summer’s well on its way and suddenly our garden’s come to life – we’ve even started harvesting things like lettuce and spinach! Here are a few shots I took the other day.

This album contains 14 photos and 5 comments.

Bluebell Heaven

Bluebell Wonderland

Every year forests all over the country are filled with bluebells and every year I forget and never take any pictures. Not this time!

This album contains 20 photos and 8 comments.

Gardening Milestone – Our Veg Starts To Grow

The Big Veg Plot

Our plan to grow our own veg is starting to gain some momentum and we spent the day cutting trees, sorting out our veg plots and various other exciting gardening tasks which I felt compelled to document. :)

This album contains 14 photos and 8 comments.

Loughrigg Fell, The Lake District

View Over Grasmere

In what seems to be turning into an annual event Rachael and I met up with our good friends Stu and Sandrine over in the Lake District for a delightful day’s hiking and eating…

This album contains 11 photos and 8 comments.

Jim’s Stag Do

Skier Against The Trees

A stag do involving skiing and snowboarding in addition to the usual heavy drinking? It sounded like a brilliant idea and it turns out it was! I haven’t had that much fun in years!

This album contains 55 photos and 21 comments.

The Mystery Of Our Plant Pot Vandal Solved

Garden Ornament

My good lady has a bunch of big plant pots in our garden and something kept digging up the bulbs she planted. I saw a movement out of the corner of my eye and started taking pictures and the culprit was revealed…

This album contains 6 photos and 13 comments.

Night Photography, Flash Guns And Too Much Of Me!

Not A Man To Mess With

My good friend (and highly talented photographer) Ade and I went out the other evening in Leeds for a night photography shoot. He was mostly practising using multiple flash guns and I was mostly looking very camp!

This album contains 20 photos and 12 comments.