It couldn’t possibly go wrong — could it? — With the bunting for Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinium Jubilee still fluttering the length the breadth of the British Isles, it is interesting to muse on the fact that this celebration of the life of the country’s longest reigning monarch was missing one historic element — a Royal Fireworks display. Fireworks…

Six Word Photo Story: Freestyle — Basking in a blaze of Laburnum I’m not certain whether it was the long chill winter, or the lack of spring rain, or the shock to its system when a couple of leggy limbs were sawn through in late February, but the laburnum tree at the entrance to our property has exploded in the best show…

April Six Word Photo Story Challenge: Graffiti & Street Art — Or a dream in saffron robes? It is two years since I shopped in our nearest city — Covid, and all that — so a recent trip brought a new perspective to old haunts. Alas, much is looking rundown, with shops closed due to the economic carnage brought about by repeated lockdowns. But not this building…

Six Word Photo Story: Freestyle — No alligators lurk in these mangroves. Okay, you caught me. The pic is from my town on England’s Yorkshire coast, and we don’t have alligators. Or mangroves. Except that is its nickname. This area lies at the bottom corner of the local park, and in the thirty years I’ve lived here I can only recall seeing…

Into a Neolithic Flint Mine — Hard hats at the ready! — Grime’s Graves, in the county of Norfolk, England, was given its name during the Anglo-Saxon period in the centuries after the Roman legions departed. It was the Angles, peoples from what is now southern Denmark and northern Germany, who first plundered and then migrated to this area, creating the Kingdom…

Six Word Photo Story Challenge: Freestyle — No golden goose laid these eggs. It’s Easter! Devout and secular Christians look forward to the Spring four-day bank holiday. The devout spend it in and out of church, the secular mainly gardening or catching up on household DIY. Everyone in the UK enjoys the tradition of exchanging and eating chocolate eggs. In 1873 J S…

Eggs, Bunnies and a bit of Religion — Are you ready? Chocolate eggs — check wine — ch… wine?? sunlounger — Oh come on! Now you’re in the realms of fantasy. The weather forecaster did say — In your dreams. This is British Easter we are talking about. Yes, Easter is upon us. When did it all start…

April Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Graffiti & Street Art” — No herrings for me. Chips only! I’m not sure when the mosaic herring gull arrived on the Promenade. There used to be an old dingy on the spot, used as a flower bed. Atop its mast was a small wooden gull which turned in the breeze — until one night some inebriated soul stole it. No…

Six Word Photo Story: Freestyle — Repeating the problem provides the solution. Last week, I fell in the garden. I was hanging out the first washing of the year that stood a chance of drying on the line in our shaded coastal garden. I placed the plastic tub I use as a washing basket on the dewy grass, lifted a garment, reached…