Before the rain

I went into Derbyshire this weekend to go climbing, but the weather was against us.

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Scarborough by night

A small amount of camera shake!
The sea front up in lights
Putting the boards away
Of course, it was raining.

Summer holidays down south

Can you guess where we went?

We recently went to Cornwall, and visited the Eden project for the first time. All I could think about was Biodome.
In the gardens
My camera steamed up in the rainforest biome

Bananas!It was cold in the Mediterranean biome, well, in comparison to the rainforest one anyway...
There was a bank of fridges and fridge magnets in the education building, my boyfriend spotted the names of our two guinea pigs up there...

Scarborough by day

The pier
It was a bit cloudy and cold - I did go in the sea, but only for about an hour.
Paddle boarding in the crowded surf.
Yay! They let dogs on that section of beach. Dogs love the beach.

The Ham national

Pig racing at Moorgreen Show - in technicolour photos and video.

County Show

This weekend was Moorgreen County Show, held near Watnall in Nottinghamshire.

there were knitted farmyard scenes, complete with ducks, rabbits, chickens pigs and farmers.
birds of prey, including my favourite, the Merlin.heavy horses and heavy men with moustaches
prize winning cattle
steam engines
and vintage ambulances.

More from Moorgreen tomorrow.

Ireland's west coast 2

Me under a gigantic tree
underwater arches, wish it was warm enough to swim
All taken in Kilarney National Park

Ireland's west coast

Our first night, camping by the roadside because everywhere was full and we had nowhere else to go.
The view from our second campsite, much more civilised.
An old church and graveyard overlooking a beautiful clear blue bay.
Playing pixies in a botanical garden
After the rain.

(Un)Seasonal weather

this platform jutted out above a gorge, at the bottom of which was a waterfall
not very inspiring weather for long walks
all photos: nr Ullapool, Scotland, in April.

The weekend - more boating

Thanks to Gem, more photos of boating. Including - proof that I did some rowing

scraggly heron

geese in a row

This weekend - Boating at Highfields

This Saturday me and Gem went to the summer exhibition at the Djanolgly centre, then we went boating at Highfields.

the fish in the pond at the Djanogly arts centre.

we took the other route to avoid the traffic jam
under the bridge
polly washup on the bridge

refreshments after a hard hour of rowing

Whitby weekend part 2

After getting up early to go surfing we went to Scarborough on the Sunday afternoon. The sun was shinning for a change and it was crammed. We couldn't find anywhere to park near where we wanted to surf so decided to have some lunch and a mooch around the town and wait for some parking spaces to free up.

From experience vegetarianism is not well supported up North; we ended up going to Ask, the chain-restaurant and ordering one of two veggie pizzas on the menu.

We walked down a little street just of the front to get there. Past these massive murals - the work of 4 (I think...) artists over 7 days.

Giving up on Scarborough altogether we headed to Cayton bay where I beach combed for glass that had been rounded off by the tides.


My haul filled both my jacket pockets.

Whitby weekend part 1.