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Rainy Days in 2014

My travels in 2014 were well-blessed with bright, dry days. The dreadful storms that ravaged parts of England didn’t affect my area, and I even missed some of the worst […]

My Travelling 2014

Sitting here and looking back at my travels in 2014, I wonder how I also managed to fit in working and moving house. I only visited one new country this […]

Happy New Year!

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.'” -Alfred Lord Tennyson “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day […]

Industrious Venice

Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.  – Andrew Carnegie I had a great travelling 2014.  One of my favourite memories is the photo workshop I attended […]

Z is for… Zénobe Gramme

Zénobe Théophile Gramme (1826-1901), the father of the dynamo, was a Belgian engineer who lived and died in France. At the age of 30 he began work in a Paris electrical […]

An Alternative Face of Venice

I didn’t see much graffitti in Venice and what there was tended to be confined to specific areas, such as around the football stadium and the port.  This example made me […]

A Place to Hide

Clever combination of graffiti and the local surroundings reminds us of the sad plight of many in our world. Linked to Monday Murals.