This week, for the Lens-Artists Challenge, Anne has proposed a Scavenger hunt. What fun! Here’s what I’ve come up with, starting with my featured photo exhibiting the soft coats of of t…| From Pyrenees to Pennines
10 posts published by margaret21 during May 2025| From Pyrenees to Pennines
This week’s Monochrome Madness, hosted by Elke of Pictures Imperfect, takes pets as its subject. We don’t have one of those, though we are required to provide daily chats and cuddles to…| From Pyrenees to Pennines
Walking through the orchard at Fountains Abbey early yesterday, I came upon this heron, not 10 feet away. He was unconcerned about me, and spent his time alert for a breakfast meal. He found three courses during the time I watched him – about 20 minutes. This video shows him enjoying just one of them. … Continue reading "Breakfast Time for a Heron"| From Pyrenees to Pennines
Last Sunday, my Spanish grandaughters went to fairyland. Actually, they went to Mother Shipton’s Cave. This long-established tourist site is where, back in the 1500s, a woman we now know as Mother Shipton apparently prophesied many things which came to pass, such as the Great Fire of London, and the invention of the iron ship. … Continue reading "A Bench for a Fairy or Two"| From Pyrenees to Pennines
My diary, revived from my trip to India back in 2007. This second part details my solo travels during the last three weeks or so. From now on, increasingly exhausted, my entries become terser and frustratingly light on detail. Sightseeing in Chennai Saturday 1st December. Got up. What else could I do? Pounded the area … Continue reading "Indian Friday: Sightseeing in Chennai"| From Pyrenees to Pennines
My diary, revived from my trip to India back in 2007. This second part details my solo travels during the last three weeks or so. The Bus to Chennai, and Hello Chennai! Friday 30th November, and just a little bit of Saturday 1st December. Today I couldn’t face an Indian breakfast, which is unusual for … Continue reading "Indian Friday: The Bus to Chennai, and Hello Chennai!"| From Pyrenees to Pennines
My diary, revived from my trip to India back in 2007. This second part details my solo travels during the last three weeks or so. The Many Faces of Pondicherry Thursday 29th November. I was very greedy today! Up early to get the cool of the day, and found myself passing ‘Just Bread’. I thought … Continue reading "Indian Friday: The Many Faces of Pondicherry"| From Pyrenees to Pennines
Now I’ve always hated funfairs, even as a child. Too noisy! Too crowded! Too scary! But I’ve always loved markets – local markets I mean, full (ideally)of stalls selling freshly picked lettuce and spinach, earth-covered newly-pulled potatoes or carrots. Local cheeses. Local fish. Local anything really. But … I haven’t got time this week to … Continue reading "Found at the Fair!"| From Pyrenees to Pennines
Just because you can barely see them doesn’t mean the benches aren’t there. Morris dancers at Ripon Theatre Festival needed to take the weight off their feet from time to time, and their dresses and general Festival clutter seem to cover from view the benches they used pretty effectively. For Jude’s Bench Challenge.| From Pyrenees to Pennines
My diary, revived from my trip to India back in 2007. This second part details my solo travels during the last three weeks or so. A Lazy yet Busy Day in Pondicherry Wednesday 28th November. Well, up early, but not bright and early. I wrote cards and had breakfast on the balcony, then waited to … Continue reading "Indian Friday: A Lazy yet Busy Day in Pondicherry"| From Pyrenees to Pennines
Benches found in Canet de Mar, with an image behind celebrating Empowerment, Sisterhood and Feminism. Incidentally, how many benches can you spot? There are more than you might at first think. For …| From Pyrenees to Pennines
We went to France ..... and then we came back.| From Pyrenees to Pennines
My featured photo is of the colourful (but poisonous) fly agaric. And as we all know, elves like to sit on them. I have no photos of elves, but I can do fairies. I offer you a fairy collecting the …| From Pyrenees to Pennines
This wasn’t the post I intended to make. But an accident turned into an opportunity.. Yesterday morning saw me with a friend, completing our tour of duty as volunteer Roaming Rangers in the D…| From Pyrenees to Pennines
I went to London last week. But it wasn’t all about seeing family. I enjoyed a few hours with Sarah of Travel with Me fame, and the day after that, walked part of the Thames Path. This route …| From Pyrenees to Pennines
Sunday afternoon. Sunny, warm, breezy. Just the time for a bike ride (‘im Indoors) or a solo walk (me). Marfield Wetlands suited us both as a starting point, though we went our separate ways …| From Pyrenees to Pennines
Our time in Shropshire resulted in a few finds that didn’t make it onto the postcards I sent. Now – thanks to Becky’s Seven in September – I have my chance. Now you can sort…| From Pyrenees to Pennines
Seven? Did Becky say that this month’s Squares Challenge was all about the number seven? Well, I’ve only got only three here in my featured photo. Erm. That’s still only five. Try…| From Pyrenees to Pennines
Most BT boxes fade anonymously into the townscape. Not here in Shrewsbury. Look. For Natalie’s Photographing Public Art Challenge.| From Pyrenees to Pennines
I thought it only right to send a postcard or two from the vegetable garden we’re tending in its owners’ absence, though very brisk winds make any photography difficult. Anyway, youR…| From Pyrenees to Pennines
This week, A Canadian blogging pal, Rebecca of Rebecca’s Reading Room reflected on re-reading Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. It made me think of a post which I wrote six years ago, i…| From Pyrenees to Pennines
On the first Saturday of every month, a book is chosen as a starting point and linked to six other books to form a chain. Readers and bloggers are invited to join in by creating their own ‘chain’ l…| From Pyrenees to Pennines
I'm retired and live in North Yorkshire, where I walk , write, volunteer and travel as often as I can.| From Pyrenees to Pennines
Perhaps only British readers will be interested in this one. Let’s see. We’re going to visit Masham, our neighbouring market town: population – just over 1000. Main employers: two…| From Pyrenees to Pennines
