It turns out that because the sign was for a railway they were also able to make the signs and they had a different font to the roads. It's a rarely used option and the first I've seen but as it's 50 years too late for a decent sample set then I don't know how many others there were.

This is near Hertford on the way there. It's a good thing I took the photos when I did and a video today as we've just had even more snow since then than we did on Saturday and I've got to go out tomorrow evening.

Francis Drake and the English fleet set out to meet the Spanish Armada

Here's another one who manages to look innocent and sweet, whilst planning mischief and mayhem.

She looks like Rosie when she spots a chitchat or a spider.

This is my sort of house

We got a bit of snow overnight, and the temperature dropped too. Although she went for her walk this morning, and asked for her afternoon one, as soon as we got outside the second time, Precious stopped. She tried to shrug out of her harness, and when I put a stop to that she just sat there with one foot raised until I opened the door and let her back inside. Poor kitty!

Mother and baby sea lions -- Galapagos

What a lovely photo

I have always said the best countryside in England has to be in Kent, here is an example in Lullingstone

The church at Eton Colege

Birfday Flars and Birfday Bear

Oh, I was hoping you'd show us Birfday Bear! He's sweet!

On a recent trip into the country, we found a wonderful little bookshop in Donnybrook. Their counter is decorated with old book covers. Maynooth, coolcat90 and I all walked out with an armload of books.

Boveney brook on Dorney Common near Slough

Susie being a little less relaxed - looking for mischief in fact

Oh yes, Susie! The ears say it all.

The high Andes

A typical English country pub in Dorney, which is also a conservation area, just next to Eton.

Public Art Newcastle upon Tyne

Man with Potential Selves - Sean Henry 2003
Location - Lower Grainger Street
Materials - Coloured Bronze
Commissioned by - GTP in co-operation with
Sculpture at Goodwood

Sean Henry is one of the UK’s leading figurative
sculptors working today. The piece comprises
three views of the same man. One stands, one
walks and one apparently floats, horizontally, above the ground. Each figure is 2.5m tall.


This is the Man Standing

A view across Muswell Hill from Highgate

Following on from yesterday

Man Walking



Man Standing is behind me as I take this picture

A bit of personal history, this was taken outside my friend's house I went to regularly from about 1970-1990 when he disappeared off the scene. It was a big family and was always something going on, both parents were artists and each had a studio upstairs, and they bred Burmese cats who think they are human and have to share their meals so whenever I ate there two or three cats would be competing for whatever we were having.

Precious doesn't usually like to stay out in the snow, but today's fall was light and fluffy and fun to play with. It wasn't too cold, either, and she enjoyed three separate outings. Not sure what she's trying to catch here, but she had fun trying!

I might be a bit out of practice here

hmm too big then too small. lol I'll get it right eventually!

Normally spiders don't bother me but I really don't like redbacks in my yard!

Another of my 'Slightly American' series started in 1980, on the A4 in Slough

Man with Potential Selves Part 3 Floating Horizontally

A typical village green in Walton on the Hill in Surrey

War Memorial, Old Eldon Square, Newcastle
The war memorial, designed by Charles Hartwell, was erected after the First World War. Legend has it that everyone in Newcastle paid a shilling to pay for construction.