A UK Bank Holiday

If anyone had asked me six months ago, what the weather would be on April 9th 2012, I would have said I didn’t know, but if they’d have added that April 9th was a Bank Holiday, there wouldn’t have been any doubt in my mind, I wouldn’t have hesitated at all, ‘oh, it’ll rain’ 🙂 I don’t think I’m alone with this thought either, perhaps it’s just a British ‘thing’ but we do like to talk about the weather.

Anyway, opening the curtains this morning, I would have won my bet, peering past the raindrops on the window, I watched the rain bouncing of the vehicles in the close, beating out the words ‘bank holiday, bank holiday……..

After waving off my eldest daughter for her journey back home to the south coast, we decided to take Jasp & Sal for a walk to Morton Stanley Park.

Slightly different from the last time I took my camera for a walk there, we squelched round on the soggy grass.

A bank holiday and the park was almost empty, except for a hardy dog walker.

Looking towards the main car park and childrens’ play area, just one car in the car park, probably belonging to the dog walker, and not a single child anywhere.

This pond is a dogs’ paradise on a warm day. I still cringe though when I see dogs in it, remembering an incident many years ago, when Ben had jumped in, he came out with blood dripping from a badly gashed paw, which had to be stitched.

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A couple more pics of T & the dogs enjoying (or NOT in Jaspers’ case) the rain 😮

An island, surrounded by vast amounts of water, we have been rained on now on & off for the last week, but vast areas of the south east are in drought alert with hosepipe bans. Something’s wrong somewhere 😦

A Walk in the Park

Yesterday we woke to a beautiful morning, it was the sort of day that you just had to go out and be part of, the sights & sounds of nature springing back into life in the warmth after its winter sleep, I so love this time of year.

Although the park is only 15 minutes walk from home, because of Jaspers arthritic legs we decided to drive there so we could spend more time walking in the park itself.

Alone in the park on such a beautiful day, where was everyone just Tony in the distance.

I’d taken the dog brush with me, and after giving Sal a good brush we left her donation in the bushes for the nesting birds to help themselves to.

Sal collected this on her nose, perhaps her thank you from a grateful bird.

This little fella was singing so loud, full of the joys of spring.

Stand still and listen………….. Song Thrushes, Robins, Blackbirds, Tits, the woods are alive with song!

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My 1st attempt at a slideshow, The B/W images are a few I’ve had a play with in photoshop, this is quite alien to me as B/W has always been from film media not digital.

I was hoping the slideshow would be just the B/W images, but still on a learning curve with this.