Lovely puss!

The new tower block outside my bedroom window seen from the other side in Malcolm Park, Hendon.

Looking down at the beach and Pacific Ocean from the track to Jack's Point.

What a lovely kitty, MotherGoose, with such a patient look on her face! I love the fact that one of the books in the background says CATS too!

This Victorian well cover is one of the features of Spindletree Gardens, where my sister and I spent a couple of hours exploring a couple of weeks ago (for my birthday treat).

My local IKEA where I got quite a few items for the house, and plenty of food over the years.

Not just Croydon now, tower blocks are now going up in Paddington.

The south end of Hammersmith Bridge

The column at Heroes Square in Budapest.

One of the many similar terraces surrounding Regents Park

On our recent holiday to Darwin, we went to an aquarium called Crocosaurus Cove. They have all sorts of reptiles but mostly crocodiles. Here's a close-up!

I could do with some of those teeth...

I haven't seen a hydrangea like this before, there were only a couple on the bush, the others were different colours.

The tui at Warkworth with the distinctive white tufts on the throat - a reasonably common and widespread forest bird (unless you live in my area) with a melodious song. The white tufts are why early European settlers called it the parson bird.

Baker Street Station (no one recognisable)

By the time we got to the North Egmont Visitor Centre the summit of Mt Taranaki decided to be a little shy and hide behind some cloud. Still, we headed up the track a little way.

A modernist house in Hampstead Garden Suburb. Modernist are straight while similar Art Deco are curved, although they are all part of the same overall design.

A pre-1964 (probably a lot older) reflective bollard. I have a few red (front facing) ones but none had backs till this turned up randomly in Basingstoke with the white rear as well.

Victor has now followed Lucy in looking after me on the desk.

My local Holiday Inn at Brent Cross. I was once done for cakes at £5 each (50p elsewhere) so have never returned.

Please give Victor a pet from me.



This is part of the Katherine Gorge (actually one of a series of 13 gorges) on the Katherine River in the Northern Territory of Australia. We did a boat cruise tour. You can swim in some sections of it where there are rock pools, but it is not encouraged because there are crocodiles.

According to Wikipedia (which explains it better than I could) - "There may be freshwater crocodiles in most parts of the river, as they nest along the banks, but they are harmless to humans. Saltwater crocodiles regularly enter the river during the wet season, when the water levels are very high, and are subsequently removed and returned to the lower levels at the onset of the dry season. Thus, swimming in the wet season is prohibited. Cruises of various lengths go as far as the fifth gorge...Freshwater crocodiles are widely distributed along the river year-round. During the wet season, rises in water levels may allow saltwater crocodiles to enter the gorge, where they are caught and relocated to lower levels when the dry season begins."

The Northern territory does not have the traditional seasons of spring, autumn, summer and winter. It has two seasons - the wet and the dry. The wet season is November to April. We were there in August, during the dry season.

I will do Carole, he goes up to everyone around for one, I've never known a cat so friendly.

A railway tunnel in Newnham, Hampshire.

Apologies for this post. Just trying my hand on posting a photo.

There are different ways to do this for a Photobucket user. I think the simplest is as follows:

On the Photobucket page for the image you will see a series of small boxes headed "Share This Photo". One of those boxes is labeled "IMG" - if you click into the box, photobucket will copy the link to your clipboard and you can just use CTRL+V to paste the link into the Reply box on FT.

Getting closer to the Jack's (Tuhawaiki) Point Lighthouse just a tad south of Timaru.

We went into the city yesterday and I noticed this display at one of my favourite bookshops. The theme is "don't judge a book by its cover" so they wrap the books in brown paper with a short description on the wrapping.

That's a great idea! Did you choose one?