Bud Neill, Lobey Dosser, mural, Open Participants 2021, The Network
Silent Sunday
237/365 Lobey Dosser Mural flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
9 Posts from August 2025
Open Participants 2021, preserves, The Network, WI
Making Preserves
Our friend Irvine recently gave us a big bag of apples from his trees, so this week I decided to make a batch of chutney and also to augment the pink currants from our garden and make a batch of jelly. I’d picked up a couple of mum’s books last time I was home, so yesterday I opened one and was immediately transported back to their kitchen on the Isle of Wight, with mum checking her cupboards for dry ingredients […]
holidays, Open Participants 2021, postcard, routines, The Network, traditions
Holiday traditions
Postcard from Algot flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Sending postcards has been part of my holiday routine for most of my life. As a child we were ‘encouraged’ to send them to family and godparents, as an adult I enjoyed choosing cards to send to nephews and nieces when they were young. In recent years N and I have been sending them to our parents. Last year I sent what would turn […]
bird feeder, coal tit, Open Participants 2021, The Network
Silent Sunday
Coal Tit flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Open Participants 2021, The Network
Silent Sunday
226/365 Sunset at Findhorn flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
lilies, Open Participants 2021, The Network
Silent Sunday
Swans flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
arty, Dew, Grass, Open Participants 2021, The Network
Silent Sunday
Dew on the grass flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
1950s, Open Participants 2021, The Network, weddings
August 1st
Mum and Dad’s wedding flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license The first of August was always a red letter day in our family. On 1st August 1959 my mum and dad got married. The date is engraved upon my memory – and this year it was very hard because I had nobody to send a card to, nobody to phone and wish a happy anniversary. I messaged my siblings the day before to […]
daily, Open Participants 2021, The Network
Seven months of daily photos
Seven months of daily photos, one for each day of the year.