There have been two hotels (originally called road houses) on these sites on the A41 in Watford for as long as anyone remembers, my grandpa used to play the guitar in the band there regularly as many other locations in and around London, this is one of the current occupants, I think it's this one I went to a wedding at about 20 years ago.

Herschel Building Newcastle University



The last building I worked in before retiring built in the 1960s now to have a new building built in front of it

Another view of the University of Western Australia.

I shall try again with the photo of a ship arriving at the Port of Timaru in New Zealand.

I spent a pleasant couple of hours this afternoon sampling several of the soups entered in the contest mentioned on the sign. This one was very good, but didn't actually contain groundhog This was part of a day called Savour the Chill, designed to get people downtown instead of always heading to the mall, and was pretty successful by the look of the crowds.

A seagull at the Santa Barbar beach. The seagulls seemed bigger than the ones here but god knows why?

Another straight road in Ashford

After a wet and humid summer this poor gardenia has developed a fungus.
It also needs a good feed of Blood and Bone with a hint of potash.

My Gardenia has responded well over the years using pickle juice (After you've eaten the pickles of course) and a good dose of Palm fertilizer. Gardenia's like acidic soil and those two provide a fair quantity of acid and nutrients. The necrotic coloring of the leaves (pale yellow) indicate it isn't getting the nutrients it needs even though they may be there. Even if you do the bone and potash, the soil ph is looking like it needs to be lowered. I think it's the vinegar in the pickle juice that does the trick. Maybe dilute some white vinegar and wet the soil with it. The palm fertilizer (depending on the mfr) usually contains some rare minerals that help too like manganese and magnesium.

The cable car up to Taronga zoo

What is this building?



It is the new station for Metro System(the station itself is underground) in the Haymarket in the centre of Newcastle

Not many flowers out at this time of year, not sure what this one is but is climbing all along a fence and in among other plants.

mehaul, I don't buy commercial pickles, but I'd be wary of putting the juice of my home-made pickles on the garden because of the salt content. Interesting theory though!
Howie, because of the season and because it's a climber, I think your plant may be one of the large-flowered Clematis. Just a guess though.

An alpaca with a rather cute hairstyle...

Aww, that's adorable!

A rail bridge in Walton on Thames

An Alpaca Avatar awaiting application (alliteratively)?

Here's my Gardenia. 6 ft high, 10 ft wide, WNW exposure getting only an hour or two of sun in the late day. It will have over 500 blooms on it by the end of April. Opening the window shown floods the house with that heavy perfume scent of the gardenias. There was a citrus tree growing nearby in its youth so it may have benefitted from that fertilizer as well. That is a Podocarpus (fake Yew) which naturally seeded (thanks to mourning doves) rising up out of the rear of the bush.