All the photos were taken yesterday- Saturday. Set off fairly late in the morning to motor to Cambridge. Stopped a mile or so from home to take the above photo. It's not been a particularly good spring or early summer this year; but what has been good is the display of poppies, I've noticed. I've also noticed that where there's been such a good display of poppies is usually in fields of oilseed rape (as in the photo). Can anyone suggest a reason for this? Went on to Cambridge where we were to meet the family, take them on the river and then to tea.
Took this (and the next few) being quanted along the Cam by the very confident young gondolier above.
The photo above shows the same young gondolier, having been dragged back aboard by Ruth, having caught his quant pole in the low arch to the left of the bridge above, and been shoved overboard by the pole. He took it in very good part, having gone in only chest deep.
King's College Chapel right of centre in above picture.
Outboard motor drying off nicely in above photo.
Tea with family in the old Garden House Hotel. Twenty three of us , to include two of granddaughters' boy friends and one recently acquired fiance (sorry my machine doesn't do foreign accents). Gave the engaged couple a pair of early Victorian brass candlesticks as an engagement present.
Been a lovely day out, and some of the grandchildren have been thanking us on Facebook today.
Goodnight All.
8 comments:
Newly ploughed fields stir up poppy seeds and encourage them to germinate - maybe it's that rape grows quickly and doesn't need pesticide, whereas other crops get sprayed? Only a guess, though.
Thank you Zoe. That sounds very possible. I'm no farmer, I'm afraid; although I grew up in a farming community in the fens.
You don't think it might be a ploy to boost his tips with sympathy?
You might have a point Rog (v. cynical of you though) but he did seem a bit clumsy, and said he was fairly new at it (which, watching him, I quite believed).
You might have a point Rog (v. cynical of you though) but he did seem a bit clumsy, and said he was fairly new at it (which, watching him, I quite believed).
P.s. Seemed a little over confident, ungainly, and made heavy work of it.Thoroughly good natured though, and able to laugh at himself.
Who is engaged?
Hello Maggie. Lizzie's eldest, Georgia, has just got engaged to Andy, a soldier (Welsh Guards, I think, but he's not Welsh- seems a decent youngster- quite likes guns).
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