Happy New Year

Just checking in to wish you all a Very Happy and joyful 2013

I have been away for three weeks without a computer but I did have my camera...

First stop Yorkshire, where I spent ten joyful days with my family, unfortunately it rained heavily every day I was there so interior shots only.

No i phone or complicated portable just a good old fashioned British Telecom standard issue telephone, the one's I grew up with, they are considered retro now, I so enjoyed curling up on the sofa, twirling the curly cord in my fingers and using this to call absent friends and loved ones.

I had five star treatment staying with my Brother

Oh I do love a big bath with a view!

I even bought sweets from my childhood (also now considered retro) for the kids but they were more interested in computer games!

And I helped my Mother with afternoon tea.

Next stop Prague for seven days and mercifully no rain but it was cold I was secretly hoping for snow but it was not to be, still, it was beautiful and there is more to come on my Prague adventure

I won't be back home until Sunday, at present I am in my spiritual home on the Provençal Coast.

See you soon, wishing you all a wonderful weekend.

XXX

Colours of Abundance

Just like a French farce there was much debate in the Town Hall, should they deepen the harbour to let all the big boats, the floating gin palaces and the tax avoidance yachts in?  Then they could attract all the billionaires, the bankers and the dock dollies.  Or should they keep the small colourful sailing boats, fishing vessels, modest yachts and motor boats, thankfully they decided on the latter and the locals drew a huge sigh of relief...

Waiting for the Barber

The colours of this town are turquoise, ochre and terracotta, then every Wednesday, one of the biggest and best markets on the Provençal coast arrives and the colours go into overdrive....

Tomorrow, a train ride, a rendezvous with my Sister and a rather special place...