Header Image

This blog has a growing selection of header images, taken from my photograph galleries over on SmugMug. I’ve put the current selection all in one

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Summer Solstice

The view from our lounge ‘porthole’ window is constantly changing so I thought I would conduct a photographic exercise to capture the changing views. Yesterday

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Canals & Windmills

I’m fascinated by the extensive Dutch canal network. As luck would have it we have a large & busy canal passing by Weert. This morning’s

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Mamils

I’ve no idea what the collective noun for a group of Mamils is, but given my experiences whilst cycling the highways & byways of the

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Maas Ferry

It’s been exactly two weeks since my last trip out on the cycle, enforced by having to wait for new tyres to be delivered and

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Up, Up & Away….

Don’t often get to see a hot air balloon so close. Drifting in from the north at around 2100hrs yesterday, it passed between us &

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Graves Damaged

What has the world come to….? From the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website: CWGC SADDENED TO CONFIRM WAR GRAVE DAMAGE “We are deeply upset to

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Getting Lost-2

Having discarded my ancient (1979) Michelin 1/200 000 road map, which led me astray more times than I care to admit, I have now acquired

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D-Day & Liberation

75 years ago today Allied forces began the invasion of Europe in Normandy, France and thus began the liberation of France, Belgium, the Netherlands &

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