A country lane in Englefield Green

Some early miniature daffs (tete-a-tete).

Blackthorn buds about to break

All those lovely signs of Spring! It's snowing here...

Here's Precious looking happier - indoors in the warm this morning, perched on the back of the couch.

Old old sign that's still on our boundary.
i think I've posted this before .. years ago .. so I think that you've now seen all of the property. LOL

I haven't seen that photo before Jill, do you offer fuel etc to people?

Come on, tell us again the size of Copago, I can't remember the figures but it knocked my socks off. I am sure some here won't have read how large it is. Whilst you are at it, how far from your homestead is your nearest neighbour, town etc.

One I just found in the archives, the hovercraft which took me to Calais in 1997.



I had to ditch my 2000 Canon scanner last week as it says it's not compatible with Windows 8, and although it's managed better before the new Kodak ESP C110 replacement is making some really dire scans like this as well whatever I set the resolution at. If anyone has any clues why it's doing that I'll be able to fiddle around with it.

lol, Sue.
okay, we have 85 000 acres (about 34500 ha). We run about 6000 sheep and 1000 goats. The nearest neighbours house is 15kms away .. the farthest one would be about 60km. Nearest town in 40km but it's only a small place so the nearest place for grocery shopping is 240km.
As far as property size goes all our neighbours are bigger than us - we have friends who are the biggest private landholders in teh state with over a million aces. It's classified as semi-arid so while it does sound like a lot you do need a lot to be productive.

Here's a little flower that is defying the dry weather.

So about 133 square miles then. Jersey is 45 square miles so three times the size of this island which has a population of about 100,000.

OOer, its mind boggling. The whole territory of HK is 1092 sq km, the island is 85 the population is about 7 million!

Copago, do you reckon that you could fit 7,000,000 people on your place?

I've never known anyone who owned a small country before.

A couple of wild daffodils deep in a hedgerow.

While in Newport, MaggieG and I took the train to Bath. Of course, on the way back when we reached Bristol it was found that there was something worng with a door and we could not continue. After sitting on the quite full 3 carriage train for a while it was decided that we would all get off and join the people on the platform to get onto another train.....a 2 carriage train so you can imagine how squashed we were...

Luckily it was on the way back so I did enjoy a bit of a walk around Bath first, one of the sights being the Pulteney Bridge over the River Avon. One of only a few in the world with shops built into it.

Wow that is a big property Copago! And lovely photos by all!
I went down to a National Park recently. I went on a lovely walk, and then had some lunch afterwards. As I was eating, this Pacific black duck came over and sat down under my table. He was soon joined by a few others, and before long there was a small party of ducks under my table! I took many photos, not all of them any good as I struggled a bit with the lighting, there was a lot of contrast between sun and shade. This one turned out alright, I think, and I like the way it looks like the duck is laughing!

Lovely photo Howie, Bath is a lovely city to explore

Love the duck Dan - he does look like he is laughing

Found this in the garden this morning. I think it might be some sort of fossil but not sure what

Oh yes, a curiosity! I love a good mystery.

Might it even be a meteorite?

That duck picture is great, and really looks like laughter.

Howie, that's so pretty.

Very odd, I'm just about to post a photo of the museum I've just visited and I saw the fossil, and guess what, they had one there. This often happens with information people ask me I'd only just found myself, but never with an actual item before. Theirs looked the same and was a fossil sea urchin. Had I know another would turn up straight away (it was only 7pm tonight) I'd have taken a closer look but will search some other images in case there are differences. Check these, the lines around the side are common to all including yours. Notice all have five lines around the sphere. According to the details I read you are showing its anus (sorry but that's the view!). sea urchins

Here's the stage at Harrow Museum where I had a photo on exhibit tonight on one of their publicity posters, it was an ancient barn on a 3rd century estate and fairly recently become a local history museum and concert venue on the stage here.

Thank you. I've looked at quite a few images, and yes it does look like a sea urchin. Sorry about showing that particular view folks! It was just laying on top of the garden, I think maybe the recent rain etc. washed it to the surface.

I'm wondering if it's the season as so many seem to be turning up in the south- when the sea levels were higher the lowlands round here were all under water so all the shells were buried and come back as the rain washes them out. But in sea urchins that view is their best side so you are excused, as they would have been there when alive as well...

I'm quite chuffed about that. I've found flints, the odd roman coin (very common round here), even the tooth from a horse once, but I've never found a real fossil before.

I've spent the day going through old photos and have spent hours (I swear it seems like hours) scanning and re-sizing. This is on Curacao a few years back when my sister and I took a trip to get away from winter. I want to take my husband back someday.

ahh idyllic, CS!

Our grader needed to go to town to get some work done on it.

OOoh I would love to drive one of those , very slowly through the middle of HK Central district, just for the heck of it!

I'd like to find any of those but a sea urchin fossil is a great find, well done! I would be chuffed too.

Another photo I scanned yesterday. This one was taken in Vermont in 2001. We were very interested in buying this old car. I wish we had.

I thought of Satguru's interest in road signs when I saw this. Not many Clearway signs left now I'll bet. This one is situated on a side road adjoining the A.325 between Aldershot and Farnborough.

Love the old car, the duck, the fossil and the daffs - and everything else!

This is the view out the window of my back door, just a few minutes ago.

A chic white-out!

Copago and ClaraSue have captured such lovely summery colours. It's nothing but dirty grey here. Today the fishermen had lined up all their handiwork on an upturned boat - new bright ropes on the lobster/crab pots.

Love that old car, probably worth a small fortune done up.

We had a lovely sunny day today with some interesting cloud formations