Mea culpa...

A terrace of houses in Romsey

Very friendly New Forest ponies

Woods around the New Forest

I found myself unable to get back to sleep as it was so damn hot in the early hours of this morning. So, I jumped into the car and drove to Berry Head, a small promontory just to the east of the small fishing town of Brixham, in the hope of capturing a few images of the Milky Way and this is one of forty-eight long exposure images.

The small building in the foreground is the visible part of an underground complex, now disused, that was operated by the Royal Observer Corps from the period beginning in the inter-war years through until the ending of the Cold War.

Nikon D800, 12-24 f/4.5-5.6, ISO 6400, 25s

Cool picture!

It's sometimes hard to tell where Kazzie ends and Katie begins...

Fordingbridge in Hampshire

A nice, shaded drinking fountain in Duke Gardens

Tooting Broadway Station, a popular design on the London Tube system.

Magnolia blossom in Duke Gardens

A pub in Colliers Wood near Wimbledon

I'll certainly drink to Trafalgar!

Fiddlehead fern in Duke Gardens.

This is actually a holiday camp west of Southampton. Don't ask me where the name came from, maybe the owner?

Who remembers these? They used to be on nearly every main road, now only a handful survive. I came across this one by chance in Hatch End.

The interior of Mt. Tabor Presbyterian Church, Portland OR

Sandy Balls is an area near Godshill, in the New Forest. If you go to the western edge of Godshill, you can see some small round 'hills', or mounds, that were formed from sand and gravel left behind as the River Avon receded to a lower level. Those mounds are the Sandy Balls. They've been called that for centuries. The estate at Sandy Balls, now the holiday park, used to be the home of the Woodcraft movement, a sort of scouting without woggles, and it also used to let local schoolchildren go there in search of beasties and monster-eating plants! I encountered my first sundew near Godshill.

...and there's me thinking it was a grumble after a day at the beach

One of many 'pit lane' handovers between two of the teams participating in the Torbay Pedal Car Grand Prix which took place at Abbey Garden Meadows, Torquay last Sunday, the 15th July 2018.

This annual event, which celebrated it's 40th anniversary this year, is organised by the Rotary Club of Babbacombe and St Marychurch often draws huge crowds and raises much needed funds for local, national and international good causes.

Here's a happy sunflower

That would be more fitting for Hallowe'en, Ed!

Thanks Flopsy, if there's one thing you can rely on here is if you've got a mystery someone will solve it. I assumed it was a brand or even a family name.

The South Downs in Sussex.

The sunflower field at Raleigh's Dorothea Dix park