#fingerpostfriday It’s tipping it down today in the Keswick area but here’s one from last Sunday when blue sky was visible .

Bluebell Wood on the Downs

Best display of Northern Lights in Southern England for many years

Excellent news. I look forward to the day when Dragonfly ( the Wilts and Berks Canal Trust trip boat ) can go all the way from The Quayside at Waitrose/ the Hall & Woodhouse ) along and through the lock to middle Wichelstowe. Thanks Wichelstowe Project!

How wise indeed… shades of my early memories of childhood hold in Devon ( late 60s ) queuing for ever towards Exeter .

When in southern Lakeland … and you’ve let the rest go mountaineering … coffee on the veranda at Brentwood . Full Arthur Ransome vibes in the area The Arthur Ransome Society

When in southern Lakeland … The Arthur Ransome Society been wanting to come out here for a long time . My fave childhood author and still a fave 50 years plus still I first read Swallows and Amazons . This area between Coniston and Windermere is a treasure !

Gondola heading S on Coniston Water earlier and it being 50th anniversary of the Swallows and Amazons film The Arthur Ransome Society Sophie Neville I have a tune in my head … Posted from The Black Bull inn Coniston with( cold) shandy) b4 collecting others from rtn from Kachenjunga

A bit of gate action on way back from Beacon Tarn .

Now returned south … but here’s a shot from Monday . Near Beacon Tarn Swallowdale? On the Cumbrian Way . The Arthur Ransome Society From dim memory I think I read Swallowdale before S and A.

Gorgeous late afternoon walk yesterday . White Horse Hill . Trig point and view across Vale of White Horse

The wide open spaces of the North Wessex Downs looking west along the Ridgeway from the back of Uffington Castle. Utterly gorgeous . North Wessex Downs National Landscape . Wild flowers on the path edge, butterflies flitting too fast to photo.

A bit of Victorian stain glass. St James the Great, Denchworth ( view over my shoulder from organist’s bench

And if I turn round … the wonderful Wantage Silver Band

One I caught a couple of weekends ago . Alongside River Dee at Chester. Chain bridge behind. #fingerpostfriday . What you can’t hear is the swing music coming from a duo at the bandstand!

Inspired by this map of the USA, thought I'd recreate it for Scotland. Peter MacDonald Magnus Davidson I made sure Shetland and Orkney weren't left in a box. Thanks to Alasdair Rae for his QGIS course on Udemy. Data from Ordnance Survey and Alasdair's online resources

Rather enjoying BBC4’s stroll down memory lane with an episode of Call my bluff😄 and wondering if they’ll get to Face the Music in due course