Date archive: June 2016
I was sitting outside in the garden last night, enjoying the sun whilst reading the local newspaper before I set off for a talk I thought I was doing. Then I saw this article in the What’s On Page of the newspaper. Looked like they had arranged a replacement speaker, a Brian Anders, who is a…
Capturing the iconic Flying Scotsman? Yes, I finally managed to see and photograph Britain’s most iconic steam locomotive, the Flying Scotsman, this afternoon, as she steamed along the North Wales coast line. A stunning piece of engineering, it was a sheer joy to see her, feel, smell and hear her as she thundered below us…
Aristotle got it absolutely right in his quote “In all things in nature there is something of the marvellous”. Meteorological summer began a few days back and the abundance of activity and growth in our flora has been quite stunning over the last few weeks. I think as we get older we notice the seasonal…