This house overlooking the Old Town was where the painter John Bratby lived out his last years. This was his own painting of the domed tower on the left.

As I don't intend going out and about today I decided a photo of the cat coming through the cat flap might be a good shot. This cat is my shadow, he follows me everywhere, or tries to. If I go out to the front of the house he appears, if I go into the garden he appears. If I go out in the car he is normally sitting waiting for me.

The nature of the beast is the one time I want him to follow me he stays in the kitchen waiting for me to return. I stood in the garden with camera poised and aimed at the cat flap, I called him, nothing. My camera switches off if I don't use it so I now have six nice photos of the cat flap. Then, while it was resetting for the next shot through he comes so although half in and half out it isn't a decent shot. He then followed me around the garden, a number of photos but none any good. Then he decided that he had had enough of this nonsense and made his feelings known - Open the flipping door!

A photo of The Guildhall in Guildford, taken from 'Tunsgate' (built on the site of the Three Tuns Inn in 1818).



A close-up of the clock

Great cat pic, Sue! Your cat has the same look mine get when I try to take their pictures: "Get that stupid thing outta my face!"

Took lots of photos today as I was out to Easter Dinner at my sister's, but decided that this one of Winston making nice with her neighbour's dog, Little Maggie, was the one I'd share. His ears stand straight up when he's with a lady!

Looking directly down at water running over a weir. Very arty ...or weird

Today we went with our 'future son-in-law' to the airstrip to fly with him in a microlight. He got his licence a week ago. Unfortunately the weather turned suddenly so only my husband and a friends 7 year old daughter got to fly. This is a pic of hubby and 'future son-in-law' about to take off.

As promised, this is Queens Gardens, Perth, where Maynooth and I got married in 1980.

Lovely.

This photo is of a memorial stone at Corbiere. Several years ago a French captain decided to take a short cut through the rocks and guess what, he hit them! No lives were lost fortunately.

Looking across the Mississippi River to Illinois.

Looking at the Reunion ball near downtown Dallas from I-35E northbound:



There is a restaurant in the top of the ball, and it spins one full circle in the course of one hour.

Well I've followed Sue's instructions and here's hoping I got it right. We just returned from a trip to Australia/New Zealand. We had a great time. Here is St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Richmond, Tasmania. Australia's oldest church built in 1836. I wish we could have stayed longer only 25 days. It's a wonderful country.

Yah! it worked.

I spent the holiday Monday in London.

I won't be having any more cats, so I can't compete with Liz and Sue's cat pics. However, I like this little statue in Gough Square, outside Dr Johnson's old house off Fleet Street. It represents Johnson's cat Hodge, and he's just finished one of the oysters that Johnson used to buy for him (in those days oysters were very cheap and sold by street-vendors in the poorer parts of town). Hodge is sitting on Johnson's dictionary: no doubt if they were living there today Hodge would be squatting on the poor doctor's keyboard!

The statue is ten years old. I think its reassuring that we still have (a) people who love my favourite man of letters enough to commission a statue of his cat and (b) sculptors who can still produce a cat that looks like a cat.

Here is one of the old mainstay shops of Berkeley California in all its splendour. I had to take a photo of good old RAsputin.

It's a lovely Spring day and the students are out in droves of course.

Today is the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, quite a big thing for Canada, and I spent this morning watching the re-dedication of the Canadian memorial atop the Ridge in France. April 9th was Easter Monday in 1917, too, which I find somehow fitting. Even more fitting is the fact that it snowed here today, as it did then in France.

I took this photo in 1986, from a moving bus. We only had a limited amount of time at Vimy on our tour, and the choice of seeing the memorial up close, or touring the tunnels. The tunnels won.

Bruyere, I can't even count how many times I've been right there where you shot that!
I spent a good many years in Berkeley (went to high school there)...

That's right on your corner then. I lived there for a time too and now my kid's there, I visit more often.
Nothing like a Top dog!

Here's a picture of "The Redhead and Her Puppy." It's a quilted wallhanging I made of my granddaughter and her bichon puppy.

How clever bhs and what a lucky granddaughter.

Hillside, blossom, cliff and a bit of rocky shore at Fairlight, just outside Hastings

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I've been in Wales this week-end, so here's a picture of Caernarfon Castle, where in 1284, Edward I proclaimed his son the first Prince of Wales. The present Prince of Wales, Charles was also invested here in 1969.

As you travel around Canada you find what I call road side attractions. Usually small towns erect them to bring in tourists or to show what the town is all about. Here is a statue of a Viking in Gimli, Manitoba. Gimli has the largest population of people from Iceland outside of Iceland itself.