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Debbie Smyth

Brrr!

Over to all of you to join the theme with your own brrr! post, or with a post based on any single word that takes your fancy. And if you haven’t […]

-Cuba

Buick

-Corsica

Pink Church of Calvi

Hex colour reference: FDBCB4 A colourful note: the first use of the English word melon as a colour was recorded in 1892. The colour, it seems, is named […]

-Hertfordshire

Wintry St Albans Mantled in Mist

-Cuba

Farewell Castro

Fidel Castro, Cuba’s Prime Minister then President until 2008, died on 25 November 2016. He reached the grand age of 90, despite many assassination attempts. It has been estimated that he […]

-Provence

Parading in Aigues Mortes

-Brittany

Paddling in Brittany

Hex colour reference: #fd7c6e A colourful note: the colour name bittersweet was first used in English in 1892 and became a Crayola crayon in 1958. Copyright Debbie Smyth, 6 January 2017 Part […]

-Hertfordshire

Reflective Landscape

Normandy

Celestial Mont St Michel

-Norway

Oslo Sunset

Hex colour reference: #5d5e53 A colourful note: the use of sunset as an English colour name was first recorded in 1916. In general, it is used to describe a much paler […]