2024 pics to share with friends.

This is one of a series of web pages, started during the restrictions of 2020. They are informal pics which anyone is welcome to look at but are not part of my professional website.

Winter wool projects were a first attempt at knitting socks and designing and making a crochet fossil beach jacket.

Two David Austin roses which I bought on offer in the Autumn flowered this summer. The yellow is Country Parson and the pink Gentle Hermione.

My girls, Willow, the brown one, and Amber, the white. They're getting on now, and don't lay eggs, but love playing in their garden.

Heathcliff took a while to settle in but is now in charge of the house.

A few beachcombing finds. Mostly seaglass this year.

Annual trip to Cropredy festival, including Richard Thompson, Rick Wakeman, and Focus. But the highlight is still the goats on the campsite.

Apres Cropredy archaeology started with a Sunday evening visit to the Rollright Stones near Chipping Norton. Left to right, the Whispering Knights, the King Stone, and the King's Men stone circle.

Here is a walk round the circle posted to my you tube channel.

The White horse of Uffington, left to right the Manger, Dragon Hill, the Horse. Short video across all three. Other horse pics, one is acrylic on canvas.

A mile or two along the Ridgeway from the horse is the Neolithc chambered tomb, Wayland's Smithy.

Just outside Avebury, West Kennet long barrow. As usual, swallows nesting in one of the chambers. Views outside including to Silbury Hill.

A September trip to Cornwall, based at Polruan. Here is Steven, the campsite gull. View looking down to the harbour from the nearest place you can park. Fowey is the other side of the estuary. The most interesting feature is what looks like a tiny castle and is a blockhouse that supported chains linked to a similar structure on the Fowey side. The chain could be raised to prevent smugglers and pirates coming up the estuary.

Polperro is a few miles along the coast. This time it was low tide so I could get onto the tiny beach where people collect clear seaglass. The stonework of the harbour wall is interesting. And the rocks and caves. Bottom left, on the edge of the village, what I previously thought was a rill is apparently the River Pol.

Talland Bay, between Polperro and Looe. Famously where Richard and Judy live, but more interesting to me for the lovely pink and mauve rock.

Bodmin Moor on the way home. Lots of livestock at Long Tom and the Hurlers.

Dartmoor ponies on the way home.

Recent visit to Charmouth.

Flowers and fossils and a hillfort.