Norfolk
Advent 13:12 – Frost and sun
If yesterday was amazing this morning was sublime!
Read MoreAdvent: 12:12 – Fog and ice
I’m going outside – I may be gone for sometime…. I took a proper camera on today’s walk – the fog and frost were simply amazing! was simply amazing!
Read MoreAdvent: 11th December – Morning walk
I mentioned yesterday that I now also have a personal Blog called The Pixel Chef. Since I launched it back in the spring I have used it to post pictures (usually taken on my mobile phone) from my early morning walks. I go for about half an hour most weekday mornings – it’s a great…
Read MoreAdvent: 9th December Christmas tree festival
A lovely display of trees again this year – 37 trees and 37 charities. This years theme was to think outside the box and there certainly were some lovely and unusual entries. The festival closes at 4.00pm today so you still have time to get to All saints church in Shipdham if you are…
Read MoreAdvent: 8th December – An unexpected sunset
Today I was going to be Blogging about the Shipdham Christmas Tree Festival which kicked off this whole advent blog idea last year. Driving across to Shipdham the sky was amazing. For a change I had a decent camera with me so I seized the moment. I have loads of photos of the Christmas trees…
Read MoreAdvent: 7th December – Not a Christmas tree!
If you were driving on the road into Shropham at lunchtime and you saw a mad woman on the side of the road in the rain with a camera that was me. I had intended to take pictures of something else today but spotted this amazing prehistoric looking tree and just had to take some…
Read MoreA taste of a summer past
We’ve recently been making the effort to frame and display a few of the many hundreds (no thousands!) of family photographs that we have languishing on our server. With so many to chose from I decided to go back to the summer of 2004 when we bought our first digital SLR. I eventually picked these…
Read MoreAdvent Blog 9: Christmas past present
This Pop star Pelham Puppet was a Christmas present I received a lot longer ago that I care to remember! It has been stored away in the loft for years and has recently come out with a view to selling it on ebay. Trouble is the strings really need untangling and I haven’t had the…
Read MoreAdvent Blog: 8 Bleak landscape
A bit of a change from the last few posts. It was grey and the wind was howling as I drove out of the village for the school run. At the last minute I thought that I’d throw in the camera to snap the wind and big skies…
Read MoreAdvent Blog: 5 Blooming cold!
Today it really feels like winter has finally arrived but the garden is still hanging onto the last blooms of summer. All of these shots were taken today … I wonder how much longer they will survive?
Read MoreAdvent Blog: 2 Frosty morning
Advent Blog day 2! Since september I have been taking myself out for a walk first thing in the morning as a substitute for the school run that I did for 12 years to the village school. I am really lucky to have some lovely unspoilt country lanes to wander and on mornings like…
Read MoreAdvent blog: 1 Festival of Christmas trees
As my children are now too old for advent calendars, last year I set myself the challenge of posting a picture a day during advent in the run up to Christmas. I enjoyed it so much the daily photo grew into a 365 project for this year, which was going well until the wedding season…
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