Re: Today in pictures
 

Couple of Greys, so in balance here's a Dutch Red from last year. :)

Re: Today in pictures
 

Yes, I know Sue...and I have got better with a little exposure to some bugs.......as long as I have the zoom on and I don't have to get too close...but they are ugly.....ugly, but fascinating too.

Re: Today in pictures
 

Awww...I like those.
I sat in a park on the Isle of White and watched the red squirrels playing.....but as soon as I got my camera out, they disappeared up into the topmost branches of the trees...it was almost like they were teasing me.
I never got one useable picture.

Re: Today in pictures
 

Thats a useful site, its gone into my favourites. I have been able to locate the specific bug on there, Its the Red Legged Shieldbug.
I thought the Mayfly more creepy crawlie due to its long "things" on its bum, I saw something like that on Matrix.

Re: Today in pictures
 

It took the week-end putting out nuts (in the foreground) lying nearby on the grass where they came in under the fence & all to convince the little ratbags I wasn't a threat & enable me to get a few halfway decent pics. :)

Re: Today in pictures
 

I will remember that next time I am in the Isle of White...take some nuts.

Re: Today in pictures
 

He's having you on Margaret, I reckon that second one's stuffed - or it's been on the waccy baccy - it is Dutch after all...

Re: Today in pictures
 

My other half asked me if Bob had been down the treacle mines. He doesn't know much about Accy but he has heard about Sabden and its claim to fame.

Re: Today in pictures
 

Its a syrup seam here, they found it when the brickworks closed.

What you can see on bob is, first he went in the Hyndburn brook up to his plimpsole line, then we came back up a very dusty path, the dust then stuck to his wet bits and there were a lot of those. The end result is the same, but it wasn't wet dirt it was dry dirt. Although he still required a hosing down at home

Re: Today in pictures
 

I think both look more like "still life" subjects Sue! Cheeky that DiG!;)

Re: Today in pictures
 

Glad folks liked my pics of Iceland yesterday. Here's some more of that amazing landscape.

1 The Gullfoss waterfall disappearing
2 It ends up down here in this crack in the rocks
3 The rock face at the side of the chasm
4 Close up of the water as it disappears
5 The water does a 90degree turn to end up in the river below
6 Moving on to Thingvellir, the site of the original outdoor Icelandic parliament a thousand years ago. The rock outcrops provided good acoustics for the reading out of the laws.This is a place where two tectonic plates are pulling the Earth's surface aprt.
7 Close up of rock formation at Thingvellir
8 View across the area, the lines of rocks are where the plates are separating and creating new land in between
9 River and lake at Thingvellir
10 Patterns made in molten rock as it cools

Re: Today in pictures
 

Great geological features and it looks lovely and cool! I particularly like the view with the church.:)

Re: Today in pictures
 

We appear to be living in the middle of a building site -danger at every turn with heavy machinery and vehicles thundering through and men on all the roofs! They are making progress as you will see.

Another large consignment of solar panels today -on the photo of the boxes you can just make out "Made in China" -surely a German investor should be buying European goods! Have found out that we have rented this investor our roof space for something like a cool 400K Euros upfront - that's for 20 years. Plus the farm will be getting it's electricity supply free...that's what is coming over on the jungle drums here:D

Final photo -business as usual on the farm - a newborn calf.

Re: Today in pictures
 

It was actually quite a hot day when we were there - mid August but I think the lack of much vegetation gives the impression of a cool climate. That view with the church is very pretty but not that typical of the landscape! Actually Iceland is not quite in the Arctic Circle so its climate is not that harsh, especially with all the geothermal activity.

Re: Today in pictures
 

The thermal activity would not affect the climate. The population live near to the coast where it would be warmer but once you get inland it can be very harsh.
Photo taken early June
http://www.accringtonweb.com/gallery...e=11021&size=1

Re: Today in pictures
 

Grolsch actually :D But as to theses libellous accusations you pair, I've passed these comments to my lawyer, expect post in the next few days. More neck than a herd of E.T's ! :s_aim1:

Re: Today in pictures
 

I'm really scared... :w00t: :tongueout :icon_argu :thefinger :tongue8:

Re: Today in pictures
 

You should be, Ill be home soon, then I'll sneak up to Morecambe & widdle on your parsnips ....... that'll show you ! :D

Re: Today in pictures
 

No parsnips this year Dave... trenches and backfill for the drains instead!

Re: Today in pictures
 

Today in Pictures, is a walk done many times before, so no landscape shots, just the opposite.

1. Green-veined butterfly, although it does look a little blue to me!
2. Spider protecting her young.
3. Still protecting her young, from me.
4. Small Skipper butterfly.
5. Same Small Skipper.
6.Rush hour at Fosters Swing Bridge.
7. Fuchsia in St Mary's Burial Ground.
8. Ladybird on a Thistle, with a collection of smaller wickthings lower down.

Nice photos posted from others from around the world.

Re: Today in pictures
 

Bugman strikes again -great close-ups - but that spider!!!! Euuuughh:eek::D:eek:

The stuff of nightmares...

Re: Today in pictures
 

Some pictures today taken from the upstairs windows of our house over the last two or three days, playing with the zoom in some of them.

1 Cauliflower clouds over Morecambe bay
2 There's a bird in that tree...
3 Yes there is...
4 It's spreading its wings
5 Long shot over the garden and the plum tree to the cemetery gate in the lane behind, from second-floor window
6 Close up at last, with digital zoom
7 Bird, Photoscaped
8 And again
9 Spot the neighbour's cat, no her name is Seren (she had a sister called Dipity) asleep on our shed roof
10 Seren zoomed in

Re: Today in pictures
 

Great pics Dave watch out David Bellamy

Re: Today in pictures
 

I can see you are playing with the textures, sometimes it just changes the picture into something else.

Didn't set out for wickthings, but as it was a walk I have done many times and posted them, there was nothing different view wise, so looked down, or accross in some cases.

Re: Today in pictures
 

I am becoming the "wicky-fungi" man, or as people who watch me take the photos say, "whats that nutcase doing on his hands and knees again.

Re: Today in pictures
 

What lens do you use for the "bug photos" Dave, is it a macro?
I was tempted to buy a macro lens myself but don't take any close up of tiny things so I didn't think it worth it.

Re: Today in pictures
 

Today in Pictures, not a notable selection, but it is my day none the less.

1. Rain on a Rose Bay Willow herb flower.
2. Golden Rod, the reason I am looking up at this, is as I walked towards it to take a picture, the ditch in front of it was covered by weeds, and I didn't see it.
3. Bulrush growing in a wet bit.
4. There is a sale on at the shoe tree.
5. You don't see this all that much on the canal, Hemp Agrimony.
6. My weekend retreat, I was working in the lab late one night.......
7. Fosters Swing Bridge, now heading home, me, not the bridge.
8. Himalayan Balsam seed heads, ready to boing.
9. And finally, I think its a bath today.

Re: Today in pictures
 

The macro option is built into the camera, I just choose the option in auto mode, and then get on my hands and knees, thats the hard bit.

I use a fujifilm finepix F500exr, I chose that, as the first option for my camera was it must fit into my top pocket.


FinePix F550EXR | Fujifilm Global this is the same as mine, the only difference is this one has GPS, not an option I wanted.

Re: Today in pictures
 

Dave that photo of the abandoned building is very evocative - could be an illustration for the Brontes - or a mad scientist...

Hemp Agrimony - haven't seen that for a while - used to have it in my last garden. Good for butterflies.

Re: Today in pictures
 

One or two more pics playing with the zoom out of the upstairs window. Not got a very steady hand at the moment but I'll keep trying.

The statue is in the cemetery behind the house, two dead elm tree trunks were turned into a fisherman and a shrimp woman by a champion chain saw carver a couple of years ago.

The roofscape is the back of buildings on the prom, on the other side of the yacht club pound and car park which features often in my photos taken from the house. The iron pinnacle is taken with max optical and digital zoom.

Re: Today in pictures
 

Thanks Dave, I have looked your camera up, it seems to have a decent spec, it certainly takes good photos.
I had a Fujifilm 9500 but it was much bigger than yours and wouldn't fit in my pocket.
I sold it to a mate when I bought the Nikon DSLR, that's even bigger with the interchangeable lenses and needs a camera bag to cart it around.
I also had a Fujifilm compact, not as good as yours but still a decent camera but it didn't have a veiwfinder and I can't do with quinting at the screen, especially if the sun is behind me.
I hadn't bothered with it for a while so I sold it to another mate far too cheaply.

I have priced a macro lens on Amazon for my Nikon and they are upwards of £350, I will leave the macro shots to you Dave, otherwise my wife would imprint my head on the back of a the frying pan.

Re: Today in pictures
 

Some great photos on here folks - keep up the good work! :)

Re: Today in pictures
 

Don't know if you've seen some of the posts on here where I was talking recently about upgrading my compact camera - I had an old Fujifilm compact with optical viewfinder but not much zoom. The problem is that hardly any of the compacts about now have the optical viewfinder and like you I don't like the screen.

But I have settled for an Olympus with 10x optical zoom and am having to get used to using the screen. It's a nice little camera, very easy to use and good enough for me, I'm not into bells and whistles. I did look at one like Dave's - and Marg P has got one as well... but didn't like the pop up flash and that angled knob on the top RHS. Each to his (her) own!

Re: Today in pictures
 

Its horses for courses really, I probably wouldn't post as many photos as I do if it had to be carried in a bag.
A viewfinder would not work for me especially in macro mode, a viewfinder would look past the subject, and you would have to fiddle with offset correction. My shots close up, are at ground level a lot of the time and looking through a viewfinder would not be possible, also my head would be in contact with the camera and the camera is an inch away from the subject. With a screen the camera can be at arms length, and I can still centre the subject. As I said though, its what works for you.

As Susie said though the flash pops up on turn on, but it can be pushed in if you wish to disable the flash.

Re: Today in pictures
 

Can we expect any photos of yours, or are you not into photography, either way glad you like the thread, and keep contributing if only to comment on photos.

Re: Today in pictures
 

I have not walked around the building before, but found a path that saved me climbing over barbed wire, so couldn't resist a mooch.

I had not come across the Hemp Agrimony before on the canal, so had to look it up, no butterflies though, perhaps as it opens fully

Re: Today in pictures
 

A selection from a walk round the farm this morning - showing some of the architecture of the old farm ( built 1700's) there are an amazing number of arches -must have taken some building.

There's a photo of one of our Border Collies for Max -she is grey and white with pale blue eyes, she's called Chicca(pronounced Keeka!) -is this a pecularity or is a part of the breed like this -her mother is identical.

The first solar panels went on this morning and I took a few other shots of interest including an old grape vine and some grapes (love the shadows on the photo of the grapes, wonderful leaf shape!), an old bell and finally our two cute donkeys for DiG!!:D

Re: Today in pictures
 

Seem to recall Kestrelx used to post the occasional photo way back, so yeh never know?:confused: great thread by the way.

Re: Today in pictures
 

A nice range of pics today Dianne! that first one looks more like a monastery than a farm!

Your collie is known as a merle, that's the term for that sort of coat colour, it's a genetic thing, can be blue, red or other colours I think and it affects eye colour as well.

Merle (dog coat) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I first came across one a few years ago up here, it was a red one, very unusual, and I don't know if you remember me posting pics from dog agility trials a few weeks ago, there were quite a few there. I think they are becoming more popular.

Here's a pic from the dog trials of a red merle collie.

Re: Today in pictures
 

Thanks for that Sue -so Chicca is a blue merle! (Nicer than the red one I think) She is a lovely sweet dog and very friendly. Doesn't seem to be deaf either which I read is frequently a problem for these kinds of dogs.

Re: Today in pictures
 

These are some pics I took last week.
Attachment 23607 Attachment 23608 Attachment 23609 Attachment 23610

Re: Today in pictures
 

Frank, we've got loads of goldfinches in our garden but they just won't stay still long enough to be snapped! Lovely picture.

Re: Today in pictures
 

Dianne and Dave don't know if either of you will be able to access this clip but just found this video of a giant donkey!

BBC News - Huge donkey welcomed at Lincolnshire animal sancturary

Re: Today in pictures
 

I had to wait ages for that shot .It was taken with my 300mm lens.

Re: Today in pictures
 

Yes I have a Fujifilm S8100 with 18x zoom but not been very enthusiastic this last year - here is video I made on it on my wildlife You Tube channel, with the highest amount of views...

swan attack dog - YouTube

It's a good camera but lacking as no zoom when using the video function. :)

Re: Today in pictures
 

Says it all really, from the States, Texas no less & she's called Ellie May, typical spams, everything has to be bigger, better, longer ...... :D

Re: Today in pictures
 

Nice one Kes, I remember discovering your YouTube channel a couple of months ago...

Re: Today in pictures
 

Today in Pictures, minimal amount today due to BIG shop day, I did go out, but not much to see.

1. Start point.
2. & 3. laying eggs in the water.

That is the best I could manage today with my large curriculum..............

Re: Today in pictures
 

Some very photogenic structures there, you must give us more

Re: Today in pictures
 

Have you ever entered "Country File" photo competition?:rolleyes:

Re: Today in pictures
 

Never heard of it, anything to do with the telly program

Re: Today in pictures
 

Wow!! You always manage to find something interesting. Could that be a Brown Hawker?? Though looks more like a male than a female...

Brown Hawker | british-dragonflies.org.uk

Re: Today in pictures
 

The very same Dave, they invite viewers to send in their pics, they're put up for the public to choose the best 12 & they turn them into a Calender. These are then printed & sold with money going to good causes. Think there were some other bits to the prize winners as well but can't quite remember.

Re: Today in pictures
 

I love blue merle collies a friend of ours has one .How old is Chicca? Max is seven next month

Re: Today in pictures
 

The prizes are photographic equipment

Re: Today in pictures
 

Thanks for that, will have to look out for it

Re: Today in pictures
 

Yer tis... you just missed it for this year...

The 2012 Countryfile Photographic Competition | Countryfile.com

Re: Today in pictures
 

I wouldnt know the difference, but now I know I will pay more attention to markings, its just that its back end kept going in the water and sort of gave the impression it was laying eggs. That way it gave me a moment to snap it.

Re: Today in pictures
 

It will give me a chance to brush up on my technique, and perhaps put aside some photos that I think are good enough. But thanks to everyone who helped with the information.

Re: Today in pictures
 

I entered it in 2010. It's worth having a go just for the sake of it - but like Susie said this year has gone already. The standard is very high though.

Check this link for last years top photos - pulling power won I think...

The Countryfile Photographic Competition finalists 2011 | Countryfile.com

Re: Today in pictures
 

Wow ...what amazing photographs - I 'll be putting my old camera out to grass...:D

Re: Today in pictures
 

susie on your camera do you not have a mode for fast moving objects ... try putting it on that one ...and click like crazy ... you might just end up wi a pic thats right .. thats how i take the ones from the bus ... :D

Re: Today in pictures
 

Yes Jen just not got round to trying it out yet... it's a new camera - it's a good idea though. With my old one I never had any probs taking photos on the bus - not tried it with the new one yet!

Nothing moves that fast round here...:p:rolleyes:

Re: Today in pictures
 

Having read through these bitchy and whingeing comments from disappointed losers I'm not sure I'd want to enter...

Countryfile Photographic Competition 2011: Best in Show | Countryfile.com

The Countryfile Photographic Competition finalists 2011 | Countryfile.com

Re: Today in pictures
 

I think I agree with that, and the standard is very high. I do it for fun, if it got too serious it would spoil it for me. I probably would as kestrelx says, put one in just for the hell of it.

Re: Today in pictures
 

It's worth bearing it in mind as you go about, perhaps seeing shots that could be used for it. Also you can put in 3 photos to the competition.

Re: Today in pictures
 

You may have already seen this, the rules for 2012. You can put in up to four photos. They don't mention categories but last year there were twelve, and presumably the BBC and/or the judges decide which photo goes in which category - twelve as they are going to make a calendar from the winners.

The 2012 Countryfile Photographic Competition | Countryfile.comDave I think that is the best attitude to approach it with. You don't want to end up like some of those miserable whingeing sods who commented. Not that you ever would or could!

Re: Today in pictures
 

Dianne that photo you posted of the tree in the snow is worthy of any competition.

Re: Today in pictures
 

These are some snow and tree photos I took last April at the holiday cottage we rent at Gatehouse of Fleet.

Re: Today in pictures
 

I forgot the dogs, they loved it.

Re: Today in pictures
 

Just re-read this year's rules and there is only one category, or theme - Walk on the Wild Side. Would have suited Davemac very well!

Re: Today in pictures
 

Here is a couple I took last year...

Metal cockeral...

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/m...l-cockeral.jpg

Adult green woodpecker and young...
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/m...e-19-08-11.jpg

How do you post it so the thumnail shows in the post? :);)

Re: Today in pictures
 

Nice pics...

Davemac gave a tutorial about uploadng photos...

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...-61189-15.html

Go to post 216 and after...

Re: Today in pictures
 

I shall be looking at these all day long to help me cool down;):D Particularly like the first one.

Sweltering hot here today :hothothot

Re: Today in pictures
 

A few out-takes from yesterday. The tree which has been attacked by some kind of caterpillar was fine a few weeks ago - now it's almost dead!:eek:

A couple of closer shots of DiG's favourite creatures too!

Re: Today in pictures
 

That is the weather we come to accept in Scotland, even in April, two days after it was almost gone and the sun shone warmly.
No fun when the drive is blocked though and we had to get the farmer next door to hack away at the tree with his chain saw.

The tree is on the lawn of Lord and Lady Vaux's mansion, they own the cottage we rent in their grounds.

Re: Today in pictures
 

Gorgeous place - all that snow,am feeling positively chilly now! Think I'll go and put the kettle on for a brew to warm up;):D

We get plenty of snow here in the winter being near to The Alps -lovely stuff -makes me revert to being a six-year old every time it comes:p

Re: Today in pictures
 

The home of Lord and Lady Vaux and the fire in the cottage.

The cottage is the other side of the house, the wood and coal are there in a shed by the big house and we were told to help our selves.

Re: Today in pictures
 

Oops, thanks for the warning Susie, I got carried away, I had four more to post after dinner.
I am a member of a Commercail vehicle engineering forum and we put dozens on a day sometime, all via Photobucket.
At least I have stopped using Photobucket on here since Neil sent me to the naughty corner.

Re: Today in pictures
 

What can I say about todays contributions, warm places, cold snowy places, statues, birds, donkeys, all I can say is well done all, and keep it up.

Re: Today in pictures
 

Today in Pictures, Castle Clough re-visited, not a walk for people in flip flops.

1. In the middle of nowhere, tractors racing up and down fields.
2. Top path down to the waterfall.
3. Waterfall with only a small amount of water falling.
4. Liverworts growing on a vertical wall, next to the waterfall.
5. This is where the stream dives underground to go under the railway line and the motorway.
6. Heading back along the stream footpath, a wall of ferns.
7. All this was part of the quarry.
8. Looking back down the direction we just came up.
9. Part of the stream close to the road.
10. The ford, from here its a right turn and a march back to Huncoat Stocks.

Re: Today in pictures
 

had to be in rawtenstall for 9am this morning .. it was scary ... anyway heres my piccies from today ....

1. Weavers Cottage in Rawtenstall
2. Bocholt tree dressed for the olympics
3. the ducks fighting in the river
4. train in the station at rawtenstall
5. butterfly in the wildflowers bit in whittaker park
6. the wildflowers bit in whittaker park
7. bee on a wildflower in whittaker park
8. sunset on rising bridge boulevard tonight 8.40pm
9. sunset on rising bridge boulevard tonight about 8.55pm
10. sunset on rising bridge boulevard tonight about 9.10pm

Re: Today in pictures
 

Jen having seen yours not sure I want to post my sunset pictures - we're supposed to get spectacular ones in Morecambe but can't see the actual sun from our house cos of the buildings along the prom. Anyway today's the first time I've seen one for ages so caught the tail end of it using the sunset setting on my new camera - not wonderful really. The first pic is through the famous loo window...

Jen love that wildflower shot...

Re: Today in pictures
 

i like em susie ... theyre different from up here ... i had spots in front of my eyes when i was out taking the sunset ones ...:p

Re: Today in pictures
 

Thank you Jen... they're certainly different from Rising Bridge - not sure why...

Re: Today in pictures
 

might be because i might have took mine earlier, plus morecambe is further north and rising bridge is higher than morecambe ... we'll have to find a science forum and pose the question ... lol

Re: Today in pictures
 

Yes you defo took yours earlier than I did - I didn't look out the window till it was nearly too late - was rushing from window to window trying to find the colours before they faded! And we're definitely on the flat here... :)

Re: Today in pictures
 

Nice pics from yesterday -particularly like the dappled light in No.2 of Dave's.

Shillelagh -lovely sunsets and wildflowers, particularly like cornflowers, don't see many over here.

Sue just to be nosey what is that on your windowsill to the right? Like the way you've framed the outside scene using the window-frame.

Re: Today in pictures
 

A selection taken this morning round the farm again -following up the arches theme in the architecture of the old farm.
1 New roofing
2 Original old milking barm (finished 1760 note old terracotta tiles on the floor)
3 Under the arches -surprising what you can find!
4 Old tackle!
5 The Stables (Original cobbled floor and beams)
6 The courtyard looking towards my house
7 More arches - the pile of wood in the background is what came out during the re-roofing on the opposite side of the courtyard.
8 Original roofing - contrast with photo 1 - the old tiles drop through sometimes, very dangerous!
9 Entrance to the farm
10 Courtyard looking towards the owners house.

Re: Today in pictures
 

Your farm looks nice and tidy mobertol.
here are some more farm photos.

The mooey things that make the slurry I spread.

Veiw from the rear window of the John Deere tractor while I was slurry spreading by the River Calder through Read.

I don't get involved with the animals, I am just a machine man.

Re: Today in pictures
 

Ha ha gremlin I like the mooey things! Didn't realise you were a tractor boy

Lovely - presume that tree with pink flowers is the Lagerstroemia you showed us recently? When I showed Richard the picture of the arched roof you posted earlier he asked me if it was Roman!

Have been looking at Castelverde on Google satellite and an educated guess tells me that your farm is on the Via Enrico Fermi/Via Livrasco - I know you have mentioned Livrasco in the past. Interesting that there are all those fields and not a single animal to be seen - not even your donkeys! I couldn't work out where the castle is even though I know what it looks like...
Ha ha I wondered if anyone would pick up on that! They are shells, probably very large barnacles, left behind there by the previous owner... don't think they came from Morecambe beach, more likely the shell shop on the prom! I have added to the collection of seaside related things on the windowsill and if we ever get round to decorating the room I have loads of old prints of crabs etc from an old book of anatomical drawings of sea creatures. Plenty of wall space - the room's only about 3 feet square but ten feet high!

So as I have nothing else to post today, my day in pictures is - my loo windowsill! and the things on it

1, 2, 3, 4 The big barnacles
5 Picture of yachts through a window by Matisse - my view from that window is yachts in the yacht club pound
6 Glass shrimps and a toy ship
7 Shells and souvenir china from Morecambe
8 Shrimp up close
9 Magnetic lobster on the mirror bracket

Re: Today in pictures
 

I love the barnacles (now I know what they are!) -could they be used as tea-light holders or perhaps for flower arrangements?

We are on Via Livrasco - great detective work! Yes , it is the Lagerstroemia -there are about 6 of them in front of the houses.

Not many animals in the fields -we have a few on the green spaces around inside the farm but it's very unusual here to see them out. Reason : extreme pressure for land -it's very intensively cultivated and mostly used for maize in this area and some hay. A lot of building is going on in Italy too (so much for the recession!) which has pushed land prices through the roof therefore it is not economically viable to have livestock out on grass!

The Castle is at Cascina Breda dei Bugni - outside the village between Castleverde and Cremona (less than 1 km I think) it could be called Via Breda but i'm not 100% sure.

Have been trying some seppia effects on some of my shots round the farm -very effective -makes it looks like they could have been taken 100 yrs ago! Will post some tomorrow...:hothothot

Re: Today in pictures
 

Today we went for a short walk in the woods above Read with our seven year old granddaughter . She wanted to take her camera and for us both to capture the same things so here goes.
Attachment 23704 Attachment 23705 Attachment 23706 Attachment 23707 Attachment 23708 Attachment 23709

Re: Today in pictures
 

Thanks for the compliment Susie, me a tractor "boy".

I retired from my job at 60 and a friend in Read who owned Dunkirk farm knew I was a good with mechanical things and a good machine man, more or less talked me in to tractor driving, I spent the next 10 or 11 years on the farm by the Calder and gave it up about 3 years ago.

"Boy"; I like that.

Re: Today in pictures
 

Gremlin, glad I made your day! Sounds like you enjoyed it and I imagine it can be quite satisfying, working on the land like that. We used to live in a cottage on the edge of a big estate in Wiltshire, surrounded by fields, and the only traffic past our front door was tractors most of the time.

Funnily enough today we were driving from Morecambe into Lancaster and came across a sponsored tractor drive from John O'Groats to Land's End - with a woman at the wheel!

Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust

Re: Today in pictures
 

Best bit was listening to the traffic reports in the heated cab on a frosty morning, I would hear reports of miles of tail backs on the motorways and roads blocked by bits of frost and all I could see were the herons on the fence post and other wild life. There were two families of deer which would stand still near there edge of the next field watching as I past. I always made sure not to cover them in slurry.

I wish I had took the offer of a job years earlier and get away from the rat race.

Re: Today in pictures
 

Sounds like a great job.

Re: Today in pictures
 

Nothing from me today, been a bit helter skelter of a day, but have just spent 30 minutes looking, and re-looking at all the pictures posted yesterday and today, and the stories that went with them, very enjoyable, and so variable, thanks everybody.

Re: Today in pictures
 

Yep discovered the castle once I knew where to look...

You couldn't get tea lights in the barnacles, the holes at the top are too small - I suppose you could take the bottom out and just use them as a cover over the flame. They would look nice with flowers in though.

Re: Today in pictures
 

Could just see you in that little two wheeled trap pulled by one of your donkeys!