Apologies for the delay in posting this monthly selection of images taken during the month of September. To be honest I have been so busy with work it had completely slipped my mind. The month seemed to fly by and there is certainly a change of seasons in the air.…
We would normally think of the days of July as hours of blazing sun and bright blue skies. Well it wasn’t quite like that here in Teesdale in 2020. As ever, I was out and about every day obtaining refereces for paintings or just taking photographs. It seems that we…
Six months of the year have now passed. Months that have changed many of our lives forever. Lets not be too despondent though, there seems to be light at the end of the Covid19 tunnel. It may be many months or perhaps even years before we return to anything like…
A third of 2020 has already passed. A year that none of us will forget. For the whole of April I have stuck to the guidelines set out by the Government and only ventured out once a day on my daily exercise. I think that only twice have I used…
Who would have believed only four weeks ago that the world would now be in a such a state? Covid19 has gripped many of the countries of the world and as I write this, here in the UK be are in almost full Lockdown. This is a momentous time in…
There’s another month off the calendar. And what a month is has been. Usually at this time of year here in the north pennines we can expect periods of cold, frosty weather with a bit of snow thrown in for good measure. Like most of the rest of the country…
Just one day after my last blog post. The one thing about living up here in the north pennines is that weatherwise hardly two days are the same. After my blog post of that bright winters dawn yesterday (The Early Bird) today was a different matter. We were greeted by…
There are many days where I could sit and type a decent short blog. The words may not be as important as the accompanying illustrations, whether artwork or photographs. But time just slips away. However, this morning was one of those days where I felt the need to put together…
Where has the year gone? It only seems a short time ago that we were hanging up the 2019 calendars and turning the page to the month of January. Now we are half way through November and December beckons. I have spent some of the time in recent weeks adding…
Nothing special about going to the shops, what with the hype that is Black Friday and the run up to Christmas but actually on this day I was off to the supermarket for the mundane routine of pushing a trolley for the weekly food supply. As usual I set off…
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