Skips, death, dogs

This has appeared on my daily walk where builders are doing a house up. Kay has trained me out of skipdiving but the pile of wood - so useful for garden projects, bale fires and the chimnea, is so tempting!

Not to mention those slates -- they're super for use in art projects.

These two are a bit related - The one of an amazing sycamore leaf caught on some brambles and the other a tiger lily discarded in the cemetery waste bin, along with several bouquets of yellow chrysanthemums and - I kid you not - the triple pendulum light fitting from a house. I have no idea why.

I've had BigDog hiding under my chair all day. He'd just got over Rowan being here (and going again) when Hugh turned up. He got over Hugh's ten minute visit three hours later - just in time for Rowan to get back.

He thinks he can't be seen.

Raspberries, Rain and red

This is what greeted me on the field today :)

They weren't ripe yesterday, but apparently the rain brings them out just so. I ate raspberries as a taking-the-dogs snack.

This was a nice little gate in a fence, leading to the back-end-of-a-garden-next-to-a-cemetery.

It was a wasted bit of garden if you ask me. There was the remains of the bonfire they lit yesterday (despite the by-laws preventing bonfires before 7PM) and a few broken slabs. Pretty arch of calamatis*, though.

*Yes I know, but I can never grow them, hence 'calamity'



So what else am I supposed to do in the rain?

Would I make Vogue, do you think?

This gift came from Liz at
My Favourite Books

Isn't she super :)
I have swag and she has a great blog.

Thanks Liz

Do you think I could get away with changing my first name to Simon?
Simon R Green?
Okay. Maybe not.

Books, Sky, Fence, Dogs

Lane posted some pictures of her bookshelves and invited others to do the same. Mine are in a dreadful mess, but here's one of the main bookcase in the study. My PC is just to the right of this, with my back facing the bookcase. The top shelf is the most interesting - it's full of writing how-to's and hitting people with swords and weapons how-to's.*

*I know there isn't supposed to be an apostrophe in 'to's' but how else would one write it? 'tos' just looks wrong!

Fantastical sky promises storms and lightning - does not deliver.

I spied a small fence
and a couple of sheds
and a rusty fire bin.

Trickster, happy to see me return from the shop (I was away all of three minutes),
Jack, *not talking*
and Bear wondering what's going on and who I am.

Cemetery and Bird table

I loved this.

This notice was on the gate to the cemetery. I find the whole idea of renting cemetery plots enchanting. What if you default?


To be fair, I think it referred to the allotments next door.

This is in the garden.
Its a three foot tall iron butterfly screen
that Gina bought Kay for her birthday a few years ago.

We love it.

Below are the geraniums.

This arrived today :)


With the aid of a screwdriver it became this:

And then with a lick of blue
shedrite it lost its chintz value and became this.

Very happy with it.

Skies and sheds

Beautiful skies today.
Heavy and pendulous, though it cheered up a bit later.

Iron paling fence with a side-serving of shed -
at the allotments next to the cemetery.

The allotment path.

What's that? Another shed?



It's a shed made from an old railway goods van!

The Cemetery gates

patterns

A random shot on a daily walk. I rather liked the juxtaposition of shapes.




A school outbuilding, shot through the chain link fencing. I had assumed it woud hold playground toys but perhaps not, judging by the signage.

Morrison's trolleys.
Considering the car park was full, there were a surprising amount available.

Like the other 312 people in store, I elected to use a basket, causing the assistant much amusement as I tried to take the bottom one - the one welded to the wheeled carry-frame.

Feathered Sky

Is this what they call a feathered sky?

The gennel looked particularly pleasant this morning. You can't tell at this time of year, but it has a chain-link fence anong both sides, through which the trees grow.

For those that asked, her are the dogs.

The big goofy one on the left is Bear, the German Shepherd. The middle Mr. Grump in the tan and white one-piece is Jack, and the black and white stumpy is Trickster.

I'll leave you with this one today. This is the view from the gennel over the school to the gas towers