GORSE

Flowers are all but banned on Message in a Milk Bottle. Initially, I thought I'd put gorse here because it's seasonal. But it isn't really. Gorse flowers all year. However, it's more noticeable when skies are blue - and there were blue skies on April 1st.

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TEACHING MUSCLE

Continuing a series of photos taken at the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, Dorset, in 2016.
For the introductory post see 'Save Our Steel Man'
The NUT is The National Union of Teachers

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SEA AT BURTON BRADSTOCK

Looking east towards Portland (land below the sky at the left of the picture) from Burton Bradstock in Dorset.

You may also like yesterday's post on my other blog - Loose and Leafy.

The Day I Lost My Nerve

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WE ARE DISMAL

Given that this photo isn't in focus either, it seems a good picture to post today. Fortunately the internet is forgiving and you're only likely to notice because I mention it. Either way it's a cheerful way to indicate a bleak mood.

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COUNTRY ROAD (OUT OF FOCUS)

I know this is out of focus but I'm putting it here because I like the shapes and colours - and am a bit short of 'in-focus' photos at present.

This road runs along beside Chesil Beach after it has re-joined the land.

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MUDDY RED SHOES

This is what happened on my Loose and Leafy Walk.

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UNION JACK: REFLECTION IN WEST BAY WATER

Here's the same flag with a swan.

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ART

Sitting here you see the Fleet Lagoon and Chesil Beach ahead - but I doubt many people see the bench - or the art!

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WHAT TO DO WITH FORTIFIED WALLS

View from a bookshop cafe of the fortified walls of Southampton.

Incidentally . . . this is another picture where, if I were to change it for 'the better' . .  it would be to change it to 'less interesting'.

About Southampton Castle and the City Walls.

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WHAT TO DO WITH A TORPEDO

What do do with a torpedo? Turn it into a Jurassic monster with a throne on! (Ichthyosaur.)

Sculpture by Andy Kirkby.
Andy Kirkby's site.

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REEDS AND CASTLE

If you peer through the mist you can see the remains of one of Henry Vlll's castles (Sandsfoot). 

Three posts mid-distance used to hold a notice warning people of torpedo testing. 

And the reeds in the foreground edge what used to be a railway line between Weymouth and Portland.

Torpedoes and the Railway - The Encyclopedia of Portland History
Sandsfoot Castle - Wikipedia
Hills in the distance are part of the South Dorset Ridgeway

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SALAD LEAVES

On a windowsill.

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BLOCK OF FLATS WITH CORDYLINE

First posted on my other blog, Loose and Leafy

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PROOF OF EXISTENCE - SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY STATION

An update on absence.

Total and repeated technology failure has kept me off air for a while. It's been quite a while since my camera broke for a second time - and it may still be another couple of weeks before it comes back from the menders. In the meantime . . . I've borrowed a camera on a short loan - which means I can post a picture here today to show I've not forgotten you!

Depending on the weather and various other variables, more photos may follow . . . but even if they don't, don't give up on me. Hopefully I'll be up and running properly again soon.

To keep us going till things settle. . . here's Southampton Station a few days ago.

And here's a link to the latest post on my other blog, 

Loose and Leafy - Life on a Borrowed Camera.

Hope you are all ok - do say!

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