One Man's Notes

The crow, it is nosy.


Obligatory social media lunch shot




Cheating on @smallbatchcc and feeling dirty. #whathappensinlondonstaysinlondon #beancheat


#cloudporn from this morning… #latergram


It’s work, I tell you, work!


Into the Auto-Awesome Woods

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I’m not long back from a week’s extended family holiday in France, at a lovely chateau available at very reasonable rates*.

Poking around in Google+ on my return, I found it’s done some interesting things with some of my photos from the trip. Google+ Photos adds “Auto-Awesome” effects to photos uploaded there, and your phone can be set to automatically upload images. The results can be unexpected, to say the very least, but this once, they’re beautifully atmospheric…

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*I may be biased - I know the owners very well… :-)


I confess: the code for Poitiers airport always makes me snigger…


I serve the thirsty fish…


#harvest #fruit #blackberries


Sunset.


Morning coffee

Enjoying a Tom Foolery coffee while catching up on e-mail and feeds on this beautiful morning…


Evening on the Adur


River life…


#instacrt


Under canvas.


Playing on the Beach


Standing on the beach… #latergram


Oh, sweet bliss of in-flight charging. 😊


Up, up and away…


Missing you, Dad.

Still missing you Dad, over a decade since you passed.


Overheard at Waitrose

"Why's this place so quiet?"

“Oh, the football’s on…”

(Panic) “Which match, which match…?”

laughter


Summer's start on the Beach

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Summer finally hit the south coast over the weekend, and I was fortunate enough to spend a good section of my three day weekend with my daughter on the beach. Friday was a quiet day, as you might expect, with Hazel enjoying exploring the abundant plant life that grows on Shoreham Beach’s rare shingle habitat.

By Sunday, the little one was quite surprised when she toddled onto the beach. She’s used to us having it largely to ourselves, bar a few dog walkers (“doggies!"), and the beach, while not packed, was certainly busy. Quite a few of the visitors had decided to take advantage of the weather by stripping off to shorts to swimwear, which led to a lot of pointing and cries of “rudie nudie!” from the little one. Toddlers lack social graces, it appears.

Still, an idyllic couple of hours, exploring the Beach, throwing pebbles into the water and watching the boats go by. While pointing out the “rudie nudies”, of course.


Lunchtime treat now my toddler is sleeping…