When you’re fifty miles from home and your transportation is a light-weight street scrambler, this is not a welcome sign…
Tag Archives: weather
Nature Wallpaper: First Frosty Morning of Autumn
I always carry a camera when I’m out and about on my motorcycle. I don’t want to miss stuff like this…
Nature Wallpaper: Through a Rain-Smeared Window
Another brief squall, just as the sun breaks through…
Wallpaper 645: Sudden Cessation of Autumn’s Calm
Out of nowhere…
If nothing else, British weather is unpredictable – especially when, like me, you live in a valley and can’t see it coming.
Wallpaper 641: Weather In-Bound
I had the dogs with me. Neither have any sense of urgency. We made it home in the nick of time.
Double Nature Wallpapers: Warm Quince & Quince in the Rain
These photos were taken just minutes apart on a particularly showery day.
A Top Tip From Tooty the Chef: Cooking When Drought Starts to Bite
It’s a furnace outside. The garden has withered. The lawn is brown – especially where the dogs piss. The ceiling fan is spinning like a demented loony. You’re hot and very bothered. Even the water from the cold tap feels warm. And you have to prepare THIS for dinner…
Desperate times demand drastic action. Cue the answer from Tooty the Chef. When heat and flies make your kitchen seem like an absolute hell-hole – stay cool and strike back by exposing your own!
Sunny Comes to Money
I think it’s grossly unfair: whilst my wealthy neighbour’s property basks in Autumn sunshine, my humble abode must shiver beneath its mantle of snow. Booooo!
Photography: What a Difference a Day Makes
It was November: the weather forecast wasn’t hopeful: but I was keen to get some snapping done while the sun shone. So I took a chance and put on my hiking shoes. Here is one of the pictures I took…
As it transpired, the weather forecast was premature: the bad weather arrived 24 hours later. Had I taken notice of it, and stayed at home, this is what I would have captured the following day…
Photography: it isn’t all about timing, but timing plays a major role in finding that neat shot. Grab that camera while you can!
Rural Portrait: Between Rain Fronts
I got wet reaching this location. I got wetter returning home. Then the Sun came out for the remainder of the day – but I stayed indoors: I didn’t trust it.
Rural Wallpaper: Damp, Chill January
S.A.D: And Why the British Vacation Abroad
Raincoats and umbrellas: an absolute neccessity. Not fun.
Walking the Fine Line Between Clever and Stupid 