Weekly Photo Challenge: Dinnertime
Posted on April 16, 2016
In the Vallée des Singes nature park, a Capucin monkey eyes up one of his five a day:

Fences everywhere you look
Posted on April 15, 2016
This week, Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge is on the subject of fences. Well, in this photograph taken at the La Sagne Hippodrome you have:
- In the foreground, the fence dividing spectators from the race course
- In the background, the fence marking the border of the racecourse
- In the middle, two steeplechase fences, with their accompanying siderails (also fences)
The horse that’s actually jumping the fence is a bonus:

Thursday Doors: Potting Shed
Posted on April 14, 2016
The back wall of our laverie (we use it as a utility room) is supported by a buttress. Our very clever builders used this to create a potting shed for Madame; they also made this nice little door for it.

Thursday Doors 14 April 2016
Hugh’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Week 21 – Fresh
Posted on April 13, 2016
It probably doesn’t get much fresher than this colourful display of salad leaves at the Rialto Market in Venice:

Weekly Photo Challenge: Future
Posted on April 9, 2016
When I saw that this week’s topic was ‘Future’, I knew exactly which image I wanted to use. Unfortunately, I didn’t take it (my son did) and nor do I have a copy in my library. However, the immensely talented Madame made a wall-hanging based on it, which now sits over our stairs. Here is my photograph of that:

It shows our twin grandsons taking their first unaccompanied walk together down the beach to the Arabian Gulf in Abu Dhabi. It always looked to me that they were heading off into the future.
I think I know why, too. When I was about their age now (eight), I remember a big – or so it seemed to me at the time – picture painted on the wall of the old Birkenhead Market. It showed a boy and a girl heading off down a path together towards a brightly shining sun: As I recall, it was actually an advert for childrens’ shoes and was captioned ‘The Highway To Health’. Anyway, the photo on the beach brought it back to me.
Tractor tyres
Posted on April 7, 2016
I see that the topic of ‘wheels’ has come around again (as it were) in this week’s Black & White challenge. The annual cavalcade of vintage agricultural vehicles at Lesterps guarantees plenty of interesting wheels.

Thursday Doors: Rochechouart
Posted on April 7, 2016
The town of Rochechouart is dominated by its medieval Chateau. It has a cloister, in one corner of which are these intriguing doors (and unusual ‘candy cane’ columns).

Thursday Doors 7 April 2016
Weekly Photo Challenge: Landscape
Posted on April 2, 2016
Not far from here, if you go down a country lane and then take the lane that leads off that, you will come across this tranquil landscape:

Tattoo
Posted on April 1, 2016
For this week’s B&W challenge, Cee wanted a candid photograph of a person or a pet. We are a pet-free zone here, but this gentleman was snapped at the La Sagne Hippodrome last July 14th.
I don’t really ‘get’ tattoos, I must say, and I certainly don’t have any myself. And even if I did, I’d be very wary about having a screed in a foreign alphabet. For all I know – and probably him too – this could mean ‘Sweet and sour chicken with fried rice’.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Candid
Thursday Doors: Limoges (encore)
Posted on March 31, 2016
After the modern automatic doors at Limoges’ railway station a few weeks ago, here is something much older from the city’s medieval quarter, very close to the Cathedral of St. Étienne. It’s obviously a bespoke job.

Thursday Doors 31 March 2016




