September 2018

I take a trip to Kharkiv. Quite an adventure. Nice people.

Back in Astcote, I'm still chasing that bird.

And the cat doesn't seem to be bothered by that bird.

Lovely Autumn scenes now.

August 2018

I make a tour of a lot of ancient sites in the mid-west

Struggle up to the top of Galstonbury Tor

The delightful Amesbury stones

Back at the 'ranch'

Cousin Nigel's daughter gets married at the end of the month in Dereham, Norfolk.

July 2018

This is quite a month. July often is. Harvesting with a gigantic combine harvester up the road.

A couple of nice old cars at John's Garage up the road.

Bins looking clean in Pattishall

Rare meeting with my brother for his 75th birthday and cousins Rosemary and Joyce somewhere in Stafford.

My car gets another clean - possibly the first since October!

For Kirri's birthday we go to silverstone and gaze at many lovely cars, including one that is almost the same as what I used to drive in the 1980s.

Kirri's girlfriend Emma's 21st birthday

Rupert's 75th card from me

It's warm again.

Penny from across the road in the village makes me these wonderful embroidered cards.

I meet the lovely Inna on-line

Kirri's 20th birthday card

I learn how to use Google Hangouts and that's my evenings occupied for many months to come.

June 2018

With increasingly annoying roadworks on the A5 my journey from anywhere south requires quite a detour now!

The big cows are back in the far paddock.

Poppies around the drainpipe outside my front door.

It really did get damn hot in June!

May 2018

More great colours now appearing everywhere.

The jackdaw's back too.

A fascinating picture of the sky - looks like mountains in the background. All straight off the camera.

Corgis still keep me very occupied and I thought I would try and make some new-looking ones out of some old wrecks that had arrived with some other order.

April 2018

It's very warm for April! and my car's approaching 100,000 miles too.

An interesting goose visits the field next door.

This lovely Lotus Elan is usually hidden in the garage but was out as I went walking around the next village, Eastcote.

Lots and lots of flowers out in the wild areas, by the side of the road or just looking like weeds.