Bramble flowers

Cakes and Windows Fixes

This was the birthday cake that Kirsty (eldest daughter) made for me last Monday. In the shape of a book, with two bookworms and Jasfoup's name on the page. Jasfoup is written correctly, by the way, as in the example at www.jasfoup.com

Best of all, it was a sponge cake covered not with icing but with marzipan

Walking today.
You can tell it's August because of the blackberries!

Delicious!

Ripe and sweet and succulent from the cemetery.

I had to take this shot.

I saw it and thought it looked like a seventies picture postcard.

Wish you were here?

And this is what I've been doing all day. Rebuilding the cake maker's PC.

I was swearing a bit. All the software, including Windows, is genuine but would it update? No, is the short answer. I rebuilt from scratch, found all the drivers online, installed a new graphics card, re-installed all her software and it still wouldn't update windows.

At the end of my tether I googled 'windows could not install updates' and came across this handy little tool which fixed everything. Dial-a-fix.

Blackberries and Graves

Ah! You can tell it's August. The blackberries are just beginning to ripen. I must say that these were delicious, and helped to get the horrible taste of conkers out of my mouth.

Unpopular chap -
a single bunch of flowers
on his fresh-dug grave.

Bear looking either
bored or pensive as I photograph a mushroom.

Sometimes aliens
are just a matter of scale
and tinted lenses

Fence, Bramble, Buddlia, Lilies

Cooler at long last - four days of heat was enough to call it summer.

Fence, Barbed Wire, Wall, Ivy
At the back of the cemetery.

A cut log and fresh Blackberry leaves.

I noticed a bramble overhead in the gennel yesterday. Today, I kid you not, it had grown a further 12" and reached the other side.

This at the front of our garden

Teasel and Buddlia

Amongst the weeds in a neighbour's garden, two Calla Lilies flower.

(shot at long distance and cropped, so the resolution is low.)