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Cellpic Sunday: A warm glow
Posted on January 23, 2024
In the past week or so we’ve had a fresh delivery of logs for our wood-fired stove, and we’ve had its chimney swept. So what if it was -6C outside?
Cellpic Sunday: A Little Job For You…
Posted on January 14, 2024
Last week, we needed to top up our supply of logs for the woodburning stoves, so we got in touch with our friendly local farmer, J-C. As usual, we sent him an SMS and he turned up at our back door (he’s not big on technology – apart from farming equipment).
The very next day he rocked up with this delivery: two cords worth of dry logs, cut to our exacting 25cm lengths. If you’re wondering what two cords is, it’s about six cubic metres, and if you’re wondering what that equates to, it’s something comfortably north of 2,000 individual pieces, which all have to be neatly (-ish, in my case) stacked under cover.
About an hour after he dropped these off, it started to snow and the temperature was -6 Centigrade, but I made a start, and I’m still plugging away at them (I’m not as young as I used to be).
Cellpic Sunday: Submerged
Posted on January 7, 2024
We’ve had an inordinate amount of rain here recently, so this old cast-iron cooking pot, repurposed as a garden ‘feature’, is full to the brim with water and autumn leaves.
Cellpic Sunday: Michelangelo, eat your heart out
Posted on December 31, 2023
It’s not just the Sistine Chapel that boasts a fancy ceiling. This one is in the Henri Toulouse-Lautrec museum in Albi, which is housed in the former Bishops’ Palace, just a step away from the Cathedral.
Cellpic Sunday: A room without a view
Posted on December 17, 2023
A few weeks ago, my entry for Cellpic Sunday was a rather attractive view from a hotel room.
This is also a view from a (different) hotel room. Rather less prepossessing, but with a little judicious cropping and straightening in Lightroom it’s possible to produce a rather more interesting image.
A warm glow
Posted on December 10, 2023
Even though the candles are battery-operated, they do produce a lovely warm glow when set in front of this decorative plate.
We stand together
Posted on December 3, 2023
This stand of half a dozen trees on the boundary of some playing fields in Oxfordshire have quite a visual impact as they tower well above their surroundings.
Cellpic Sunday: Gare des Benedictins
Posted on November 26, 2023
The main railway station of the city of Limoges is often said to be the most beautiful in Europe. It certainly looked at its best on a recent cold sunny morning.
(This was taken through the window of our hotel room.)
Cellpic Sunday: Seismic Shift
Posted on November 20, 2023
I took this photograph from one of the bridges over the River Tarn in Albi, as we were walking back to our hotel. There is a weir at this point in the river and I couldn’t help but notice the effect this had on what would otherwise have been a perfectly nice, but pretty ordinary,reflection.
Cellpic Sunday: Rainbow
Posted on November 12, 2023
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