Wimpole Farm

We had Wimpole Farm to ourselves yesterday - very different to school holidays and during lambing. Large numbers of piglets in the pens and more to be born so very noisy with all the grunts. I always like an excuse for monochrome as with the old farm machinery 

Perfect Gliding Weather?

Saturday's walk was all about the weather - I sent off for my walk round Hardwick Wood and Caldecote in warm sunshine but the clouds soon gathered and, as the rain started, I noticed a glider against the storm clouds and then another and another. In all I counted 8 soaring in the thermals (plus a buzzard). I later found out these were from the UK Junior Gliding Nationals at Gransden Lodge. One glider failed to maintain height and must have landed in a local field somewhere. I got very wet but. like these skittish calves, dried off in some late afternoon sunshine. (for my info wider angle are phone images)

Madingley Hall

We had a walk round the grounds of Madingley Hall with Meredith and Sadie, having set ourselves some topics to all take photos off. These were something beginning with same letter as our name, for me A, so Acorn and Arch, then Triangle, Reflection, Interesting Window, Yellow and Stonework.

Sawflies, Ichneumons and Others from the Garden

Another batch from the garden last Friday when the wet conditions gave way to a really hot humid day that the insects found to their liking. Lots of different Sawflies and Ichneumons - most not able to identify from photo but will go in the garden database as photos with suggested family etc. The one with the very long ovipositor was very impressive - about 1 cm total size. The rain had brought out slugs and snails

My Village Over Time

This afternoon, I am presenting the Friendship Club in Toft, Cambridgeshire, with a Photoquiz about our village and, for interest, I have included some images from a few years back. The church image is from 1900 and has changed so little, the next two are from the 1970s about 5 years after I moved to Toft and these all show how the pace of change has increased. The rest are various comparison images from this year and the archives  (some images from Toft Historical Society).