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Challenges

Roses in Lewes

The East Sussex county town of Lewes has the most beautiful of settings, in a bowl surrounded by chalk hills.  The residents enhance its beauty further by keeping the town […]

Beach holiday

The Colour of Ice Cream

We are having something of a heat wave here in Britain; so hot that the railway lines were melting near London Waterloo the other day.  So I thought that for […]

-England

Skateboarder in Motion

Even if you don’t know much about skateboarding, if you live in London or visit the South Bank entertainment complex, you’ll know this skate park. In fact, a battle between […]

Black and White Challenges

Macabre Toy

The Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate, on England’s Kent coast, is currently showing an exhibition entitled “Curiosity”. Many of the shops around the old town are supporting that exhibition by […]

-London

Rows of Red

Incredible begonias in the English Garden in Regents Park, London. . Posted as part of Ruby Tuesday.

-London

Woman Driver

This beautiful mural, made of ceramic tiles painted by Brian James in 2011, marks the former site of  a Bloomsbury petrol station.  The old Ridgmount petrol station dates back to […]

Challenges

Happy Days

Happy Days! Here I am, outside school in the mid 1970s (that’s me second from right), with a group of friends.  Like the uniform? You’re not seeing the worst of […]

-London

St Paul’s Cathedral

St Paul’s Cathedral looks particularly striking in this pencil sketch. The sketch is in fact a modified version of this photograph, altered using Picasa.  Here is my original: This post […]

-London

Yellow Flowers in Regents Park

The gardens at Regents Park are spectacular at the moment; as you’ll see with these yellow flowers:   Posted as part of the Sunday Stills Next Challenge: Yellow Flowers.

-East Midlands

Corpus Christi Reflections

The College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary, to use its full name, is the 6th oldest college in Cambridge University, founded in 1352 by townspeople , primarily […]