The Feeder

 

A few photos from my wildlife camera showing blue tits feeding and a sparrow

 

 

Discarded Fifth

 

 

 

 

Frosty Plants

 It has been cold for the last few days and will be for a few more yet, I went out in the garden and took a few photos around of the frost on the plants, this is a collage I made of it.

Take Care

Oak Heart

Cyprus 1983

 

Back in 1983 my wife & I went on Honeymoon to Paphos in Cyprus, not my first choice (I wanted to go to the Canary Isles) but I let my wife choose. We both wished we had never gone to Cyprus after. I took a few photos while I was there and here is a few of the town. I doubt it looks like this now.

This is one of the hotels nearby

If you carried on along the road on the right you would have come to our hotel

 

The seafront

 

Paphos Tavern, very busy here

 

And this place was positively buzzing, you can see why we wished we never went there.

This is Paphos as it was then. I will show what was behind me next week. 

The main reason we never went back when it was nicer was because we were picked up by a local farmer who gave use a lift back to town and asked us back for a drink, we said we could not go because were did not have long left there but the guy kept hanging around begging us to go back with him we just hid of kept out the way. On our last night we saw him drive past where were were eating looking for us, we ducked down out the way and went straight back to the hotel after keeping an eye out for him. We knew he wanted to see us some tat so no way were we going with him. We got away safely but the who experience put us off, the place and hotel has changed a lot since then but it was never a place we wanted to return to.

Take Care.

Snowy Sunrise

 

In the middle of December last year we had snow making for a cold couple of weeks here in the UK, one morning I looked out as we were getting up and saw a beautiful sunrise 

 

These were all taken from the bedroom window

 

You could see the air was cold

 

A plane comes into view

 

Looking over the close next door no lights are on but the sun getting up

Happy Skywatch

Cottage in the Snow

 

 It is called Red Cow Cottage and faces the old road that ran along in front of the place. It's thought to have been a Ale House rather than a public house. Now it is privately owned the old road gone and the back faces the main road now. The photo was taken around the early eighty's from the back of the house I owned at the time. This view is no more as a housing estate now occupies this land, the cottage is still there.

Holly Berrys

 

 

Estate update

 

Every so often I walk up through the village to see how the new development is coming along, since it started a couple of years ago it has grown from a few houses being built to a lot of them where people have moved in to them. The photos were all taken on an iphone

 

I came on off the bridleway along and took this photo showing now how much the place has grown

 

Through the fencing you get a better idea as to how the house look, these are in the finishing stage

 

Here we look down the first road, as you can see some of the house have people living in them

 

There are a row of bungalows which are for sale at the moment

 

This view looks along the road from the entrance to the estate, if you look towards the end you can see houses being built

 

This was the road the went from the left in the previous photo

 

Stepping back to the junction where the show home and sales office is situated

A wider view showing more of the estate. I think it will be a while before I get around the whole estate to take photos.

Take Care

Thrush on the fence

 

 Spotted this thrush sat on the fence though the back door window from our kitchen so got a photo with my compact camera.

After posting a photo each day for the last week I'm really struggling to if I should just go back to posting my regular blogs and adding random post. Posting for a  365 is harder than I thought even though I did it when I started blogging.

Knight in the Corner

 

 

Last year I spotted this fellow outside the antiques centre not its up on the  second floor, must have been a task getting him there

Interesting Carving

 Another item I found interesting in the antiques arcade I visited the other day, This carving really did take my eye

Old Camera

 

Came across this camera in an antiques place and I have to admit I nearly bought it, I've always wanted camera like this when I was younger 

 365 Project 

New House

 

 Over the last few weeks I have been building anew Bird house for the blue tits (tit box) hopefully they will nest in it and the woodpecker will not get in

 This year |I am going to attempt a 365 which means I will be hopefully posting a photo each day.

 365 Project