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A few randoms from this week

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Today was a sunny experience around Calf Hey Reservoir

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From Yesterday
1 & 2 are fancy poppies growing by the side of the miniature railway in Southport
3) I am practising for the next Lancashire photo comp.......the shadow of the overhead lights on the pier...mono for dramatic effect.
4) Southport...the bridge that runs alongside the pier.
5) A labyrinth on the beach - no takers.
The last three are cards made in a hurry.....Congratulation card for my friends daughter(she has just got a 2:1 at Newcastle Uni).
A birthday card for a birthday that almost slipped by me.......and the same card with a hand made co-ordinating envelope to make me feel
less guilty about almost forgetting.

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Today was a return to Huncoat Colliery, just to see if the promise of further blooms had held up.

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I went for a better look around Ullswater today, with a nice drive through Kirkstone Pass and a walk up to Aira Force waterfall. Even saw a woodpecker (lesser spotted I think) and a not so rare (but elusive to me) Nuthatch.

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Beautiful flowers. I like the roses! I had to look twice at number 7 though - I though I was looking at a giant cow patty ��

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Wonderful shots - spectacular scenery :)

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That large metallic type thingy is a bit out of context for the area, it is the size of a small car and looks like a large piece of clinker. I can only assume that it is some "thingy" conected with the colliery.

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Particularly like 6 for some reason ... and 7; isn't it time you bought a watch? Those Dents de Lions are notoriously inaccurate.;)

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5 does it for me.

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Yes, anyone can see that it is half an hour slow! :)

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Today was a leisurely walk from Rishton dip through to the M65 bridge.

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Lovely reflection in number one, and number eight is so tranquil :)

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You wouldn't guess the motorway is just yards from picture no 8.and you get a little bit of the bridge in another picture.

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A strool around Roddlesworth today

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Hertsfordshire pub last night. The pros and cons of pubs is being churned around on the "New Pub" thread but.....

Lovely summers night. Country pub, dining alfresco.
Two pints of Buntingford Bitter £3.50 a pint
Beef and Chorizo burger with a Stilton dressing £10.00.

Worth every penny. :D

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It looks lovely...but why contaminate a burger with chorizo?
That is just me and my dislike of food that has been 'messed with'.
I prefer my burgers made with just beef(freshly minced where possible) and just a hint of condiments.
I am very wary of commercial burgers....I like to make my own.....and when I am feeling very adventurous(which isn't often these days)..... I add dry mustard to the mix before frying.

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Freedom of panorama: EU proposal could mean holiday snaps breach copyright - Telegraph
For those of us who like to take pictures and post them, this could have an impact.
There is a current petition that will let those in the European Parliament know what we think of their restrictions.
If you think this legislation will be bad for photographers and photography then you might want to sign it.
here is a link to the petition.
https://www.change.org/p/european-pa...op-europarl-en

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I support the right to photograph anything in the public domain and have signed the petition. But this goes against my rights in law, I have a right to take photographs of any subject in a public place, and is visible from such, whenever I like. The only deviation to that as I can see is the terrorism act, if it is thought that I am photographing for nefarious purposes then the police can ask to view my pictures.
This also opens up a whole can of worms, do all the cameras used by the police have a right to photograph or video myself if I state that I don't want it, do Google have the right to photograph my house and stick it on a world wide database. A slippery slope.

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what this new regulation will do will make it a copyright infringement for you to take pictures of a monument, a museum a beauty spot and publish it whether this is like on here or if you sell your image makes no difference. You will be guilty of a copyright infringement.(even if you are taking a picture of a family member and copyrighted building is in your frame)
I have signed the petition and would ask others to do the same.
Please can I ask that other promote the information(it isn't widely known that this is currently being looked at by the EU) and get support for the petition from everyone they know.

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Isn`t it for photos for commercial use? I`ve signed the petition anyway but I doubt we`ve anything to worry about.

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It seems that it applies to any photograph that is likely to be published......and putting a picture on here could count as being published, even if there is no commercial aspect.
I have had some pictures published in a Victorian Journal, I get nothing for them(other than the attribution) but as I read it, this would infringe the copyright of the building I had photographed.
How this is going to be policed it is impossible to say, but the Eu has other pressing issues that need to be addressed before looking at innocuous stuff like this.

And who is to say if and when you are going to be offered money for one of your pictures?

So far no one has offered to buy any of mine...but I can live in hope.

We do not need any EU meddling with what we can and can't photograph.

Thank you for signing the petition.

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I signed it because I disagree with the silly rule, it will no doubt affect someones livelihood if it goes through.

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Yes LAWYERS

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Signed it

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Signed the petition. On a lighter note, it's Canada Day over here. So what am I having for dinner - moose steaks, no. Beaver tails - no. Poutine? No. How about Halibut, chips, and mushy peas served with a sparkling Spanish wine (because I couldn't get any Henkel Trokken) :)
By the way, these canned mushy peas are an abnormal shade of green - scary :eek:

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It must be because they have bi- carb in them.....might be a bit windy round your place later:).
Sounds like a Canada Day Feast to me(I really didn't fancy the other options).

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Just a few of tonights storm from the loft window.

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Impressive lightning bolts and your capture of them! Over here the sky is clear, but we'll suffer the thunder claps of fire crackers as the locals enjoy their fireworks. I'd rather have the real thing, as I hate senseless noise :(

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There I was playing Moon Cresta(pic 1) when I heard a noise...

Pic 10... A thing of beauty. An interface made by a dude in France that allows for games to be loaded via a micro sd card. It also has a kempston interface(for those that remember ZX spectrum, it allows for joystick input) so I can use the ZipSTICK :D

.......It was Quite a storm. Almost 30 minutes long (pics 2-9)

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Last night in Manchester:
Two pints of Earl Grey IPA @ 6.8% in the Marble Arch on Rochdale Road and then Fleetwood Mac at the Arena.
"Life doesn't get much better that this" :D

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Somewhere I read they apply the one mile rule in sourcing their produce.The burgers were in no way commercial burgers Margaret can you not tell that from the photo? A beautiful hand crafted beef patty. How is chorizo* contaminating it ???All of the meat and over 100 different vegetables, fruit and herbs are grown at Church Farm across the road. Heritage varieties and rare breeds over there enables them to offer the best local ingredients.
* btw Try some morcilla from Brazil.

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Yes you could see that the burgers were not the McDonalds style, but I still think that a good beef burger made like that needs no fancy additions to improve it(the first line of my post gave you a clue - I said it looked lovely)....it just makes it pretentious....and if you knew anything about me you would know that I have a real aversion to foreign food....so I won't be heeding your advice to try morcilla...they have it in Spain and I think it originated from there.
I don't eat English black pudding so I won't be eating that.

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Can't see how the fusion of different tastes is pretentious Margaret.

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Well it is taking something that is basically simple and adding something that has become(for the want of a better word) fashionable.
But then if you want your food fused that is your choice.
I prefer my food to be of a simpler variety....and simpler does not have to be boring.
Pretentious is making something basic(and good) into something that is seen as 'fashionable'.
See....now you have me repeating myself.
Just my opinion, there are other opinions available for you to make a choice from.
Have burger, have chorizo, but don't bastardise (am I allowed to say that ?)both by adding them to each other.

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We are probably gonna get lambasted (not that that's got owt to do with sheep) by the Mods Margaret for this thread wander.
Foreign food Margaret?
Didn't Sir Francis D bring us the humble potato back from his travels?
Tomato and Ketchup from the Amercan Indian
Beef burger plain and simple from the German settlers into the US.
Of course, we eat plenty of stuff that other nations would label as “foreign muck”, from tripe and onions to Gala Pie. And the truth is, our intolerance has never been unique. We might be unimpressed by the idea of eating snails, but the French can be equally dismissive of faggots.

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Ok, you made your point.....everything has to start somewhere I guess.....But potatoes grow here....they don't taste funny(unless they are curried...bleugh)
If I don't like the look of something, i don't put it in my mouth.
I only broke this rule once.....with haggis!
I won't be doing that again.
I am the woman who spent ten days in Hong Kong and only ate English food.
Back to photography (to get us back on track)
I liked the picture of the fat chips as a side order to your burger.....now I could really have eaten those with some mustard!

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Let's get this thread back on track. We went on a stroll from Greenberfield Locks to East Marton today

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The day after Canada Day ... am I ever hung over:alright: Unlike Turtle's, my Canada Day was more traditional. ... BBQ: Lake trout from Lake Ontario, bambi burgers, spuds and veggies grown in Canada, Canadian wine, beer, rye, and vodka. Good Canadian weed.;). Took it easy today and read an old friend ... that would be pic one. No. 2 is an old friend with the hair of the dog. And the rest ... Coons.:D In one pic, you can see the aromatic smoke from a recovery joint.:cool: And that's it for coon pics this year; thought I'd get them out of my system in one swell foop.

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Love those critters Eric.

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You mention the C word Eric, it reminded me of this sheet music I saw in an Amsterdam Flea market a couple of weeks ago. I have been kicking myself ever since for not buying it, getting it framed to hang on my home office :D

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You should always go with your gut instinct when it comes to pictures!

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this morning ... :p

Police on the scene after Rising Bridge post office robbed - Rossendale Free Press

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if you needed money for a coffee shillelagh you could have asked I would lend it to you no need to go to that extreme:p

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A stroll from BallGrove to Wycoller and back yesterday. When we arrived at Ball Grove Car Park. I discovered that my battery on my DSLR Camera was flat so I had to use my Olympus D 750 pocket camera without a viewfinder.So it was pot luck what I took as the sun was shining on the screen and I could not see anything.

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You did alright with those pic Frank.
The lesson you learned from that is carry a spare!
I do heed my own advice although once I put the dead battery back in my back and forgot to charge it....so next time out who had TWO dead batteries....that'd be me

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You managed to get some nice shots regardless :)

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I wouldn't mind but I have a spare battery and should have put it in my pocket

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They're just youngsters ... call them teenagers:D ... and rambunctious as all hell. But very friendly as you can see; only a couple of feet away.

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you complained last time!!!! :p

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Today was a return to the windmills, there are 12 at the moment, however they are testing for the 4 extra that have just been given planning permission.

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Our little visitor to the garden the other day.

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Today was a gamble I knew it was going to rain and I thought I knew when...........I was wrong.

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On canal at Huncoyte ?

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Spot on, just a gentler amble up to the bridge and back again.

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From yesterday's coastal walk.
Remains of cottage/farmhouse by Port Ysgaden dating back to the early 1700's inhabited back then by the Customs Officer.
Abandoned cove (Porth Pennog) the winches once used for hauling in the herring boats.

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Great shots,looks lovely (ideal for metal detecting ;)).

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Today's walkies

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Really like no. 7 ... Just love old machinery ... not all of it; some of my old machinery don't work all that well any more; at least not without pharmaceutical help:mad:

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Don't think you'd need the detecting stick, there's clunking great lumps of metal everywhere. :)

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My pics for today....The smoothing iron....something that was mentioned in another thread.
Thank you cards - well, the end of term approaches and Spindles will be moving schools so these are made especially for the teachers he loved.
Last.....I am in print....well one of my pictures is...in this prestigious journal

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You are probably right AccyX as evidenced by this link there's been a lot of activity some legal and some not so legal around these coves for hundreds of years.


Porth y Sgaden

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The flat iron looks completely different with Highams mill flattened

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Yes, it does.....and when we were growing up there were never trees or bushes in there...just long grass.
We played in it often, it was a fort, a ship, a house,a swimming pool....it was anything our imaginations wanted it to be.
A safe area to play...We could be seen by our parents, they knew exactly where to look for us.

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Following in the footsteps of Mr.Mac.Just before the heavy rain before dinner time.

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You did indeed walk in the footsteps of myself, however I did deviate after getting to the bridge, just opposite that life-raft on the footpath side there is a style built into the wall, I followed this wondering where the piggin heck I was, it came out eventually behind that orange structure. They appear to be putting a pipeline in. Incidentally as I was walking the path there was a large bird, eagle like in colour and flight with a wingspan roughly about the size of my arms outstretched, couldn't get a close up look as every time I got close it sort of dropped off the branch it was sat on and glided/flew away again.

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You probably saw a buzzard Dave.
http://www.rspb.org.uk/discoveranden...ame/b/buzzard/

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Probably, but it was deep into the woods so it never got to a position to have a proper look

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You've captured the best raccoon shots I've seen yet! Beautiful creatures :)

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A lovely mothly thing :)

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Great views, davemac - the height of summer :)

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I really like number 3 :)

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I like the composition of number 4 - great reflections, your speciality :)

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Lovely cards! And congratulations on the publication of one of your many wonderful photos Margaret :)

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(Blushing) Thank you, you are so kind.

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Wonderfully dramatic skies :)

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A banner day for me and hubby: we found our first Geocache (after several frustrating attempts). Then returned to a previously unfruitful cache site to harvest wild black cap raspberries. Someone had beat us to it for the easy berry grabs, necessitating me 'womaning up' to brave mozzies, prickly thorns, snakes and spiders. Nine jars of delicious jam resulted: picked at 9am, jam by 2. Big smiles :)
Oops - more people want a jar (mother, sister, two nieces, Aunty ...) I'll have to go back there for more, if there are any left.

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Another photo... (My iPad won't let me upload more than one at once)

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Hubby helped... "Move six feet to your left - there's a mother lode of juicy ripe berries"
Me: "but there's nothing but waist high brambles and a six foot drop over there!"

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Berries bubbling on the stove

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Jars of jam for cold winter breakfasts :)

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If you go down to the woods today , you'll never complete your walk. There was forestry operations going on so we were restricted where we walked

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Where's your Cammo kit? :)

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This guy nicked it

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Today is another "catch up" this is last Thursdays walk/climb around the area of Hapton Quarry. An area of contrast, green bits, wet bits, rock hard bits, and rotating bits.

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Today was a walk down to the river, It was raining and by the time I reached the water I was the wettest.

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A return to Viking Country for a bijou holidayette, Witch, Bitch & yours truly! Indulging in the sites, culture & flavours enjoyed by our Nordic neighbours. :)

My but it's a tad parky on our crossing to Fyn - Svendborg Dry dock, historic ships & colourful dockside facade. (We're here until Saturday so expect to be bored to tears with happyhols snaps! These were yesterdays :D)

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It is a place that I am unlikely to visit in person...so I say 'Bring it on'!

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Lovely, even in the rain :)

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Ditto to what Margaret said. More please!

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Well, you asked for it! ;) We're running a day behind the actual day when putting things up so apologies for that.

So Monday was as follows - Fejellebroens obvious & only attraction - Then, across to Odense for a splash of culture in the form of Mr.H.C.Andersson, Damned tourists! Bang Boder? His town house, Overstraede, the workhouse, Another street on the trail leading to the river & the washplace where his mum scrubbed his grollies. - Some proper culture, the "Albani" Brewery, they do a beer called "Giraf", can't think why & finally the Storebaelt road bridge linking Fyn to Zeeland.

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Oh son, it looks very quaint.....love those dinky little houses.

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I don't suppose any members got pics of the "Pluto flyby" did they? :D

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They are aren't they? Wherever you go across the various Islands you'll always find some really pretty houses. What's even more surprising is those that have managed to survive in big cities surrounded by new modern buildings & homes.

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No even my big zoom wasn't big enough.

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Wednesday, so that means pics from Tuesday then! :)

The day started with us flitting over the Storebaelt to Zeeland (it's a big old bridge mind) - We then scuttled up to Helsingor & castle Kronborg (Old Willie boys "Elsinor" in Hamlet) - Then a bob over to Sweden (Helsingborg) as you do! - Tootle down through Sweden to Malmo & onto another even whoppingly bigger bridge. the Oresund back to Denmark - Then down to Koge to visit & Brewery & Distillery (which was closed when we got there ($$%#*!) - Then on our way home a quick skeg in at Korsor.

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Today's walkies.

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Well. as for Wednesday ..... so much planned but not achieved, aye well, such is life! Anyways on with the happy snaps.

At Spodbjerg harbour there's a couple of cutters, this one supplies the quayside fish shop - Cormorants on a navigation pylon for shipping approaching Tars on Lolland - Aalholm castle Nysted - Nysted Marina & village - Wish my Ford looked this good - Town Hall Nysted - Close up of the clock - Yet another pretty street in Nysted - Memorial to a B17 & crew who crashed into the sea in 1944 (near where the wind park now stands) - Now then Cinders, get back in the coach it's going home time! (well it is Denmark after all :))

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A couple from St Agnes, the rest from Perranporth beach.

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Today's walkies on the Lancaster CANAL