Hotel Las Palmeras, Otovalo, Ecuador

Angel, bearing Guinea Pig*, in the dining room,

*Was not on the menu but could be had from the local cafe - Sundays only.





Very very nice lunch (quiche and tree-tomato juice)

The clocks went back...

Dartmouth - happy childhood memories - will I be disapointed by 2006 reality*? *Like to buy a one car garage costs in excess of ?75,000

The Cherub in Dartmouth - rather nice Liver,Onions and Mash (The Cherub is 626 years old - yes really!)

God Daughter Kirstie - nearly 4

Just how I remembered it - some 36 years ago...

Blackpool Sands - Devon - ritual visit to the sea - I live in Birmingham and the sea is a long way away. As the beach is mostly fine pebbles/grit the owners provide a "sand-enclosure"

Midweek Night Score League Champion 2005-2006 

The sign says "careful maintenance and sensitive husbandry" - what you get is Doug and Dave with loppers... still it was fun: "for you Mr Laurel the party's over..." (Prunus laurocerasus)

Fractal Veg...

Once Again - A Romanesco cauliflower - Intelligent Design? - check this out....
Fractal dimensions of a green broccoli and a white cauliflower (Kim)

13th World ARDF Championship - on the Black Sea in Bulgaria

2/3 of the team

1/3 of the team

Team Residence

A speech from the Vice President of Bulgaria (!)

Folk Dancers have had enough

Official Photo

Reading 1 Man City 0

Nero exploiting "natural camoflage" - I assume the urban black cat evolved rapidly in response the launch of Mr Ford's Model-T "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black."

New Camera:Old Camera

A wet Thursday in Wales - M5-M6-M54-A458 to Dref Gerrig - it started raining as I passed IKEA...

A very rainy day in Barmouth

  

Barmouth... after amusements and before excellent fish and chips (it was still raining)

Next year's project just has to be an automatic gate opener!

Downhill Diggler Dirt Dawg - #2

 

Diggler Dirt Dawg - Extreme Downhill Training - Novice to Expert in a day 

Downhill Diggler Dirt Dawg - #2

 
Diggler Dirt Dawg - Extreme Downhill Training - Novice to Expert in a day 

Dref "Red Run"

 
The author shortly after completing first "Red Run" at Dref Gerrig - thanks to most excellent instruction 

It will end in tears...

The first-of-the-last - only five more South Wales peaks to go after Craig Y Fan Ddu (Cloud covered Peny Fan in the distance)

View toward Sugar Loaf from Waun Rydd - under the grey layer of cloud there was a very nasty brown smudge... very strong winds from the north... photochemical smog or just polluted air - and this is August - felt like November

The very last mountain... Allt Lwyd completes Southern Wales - it was rather windy on the ridge

Fairfor RIAT 2006

 

Really rather happy with this photo! 

Fairford RIAT 2006

 

Matti - Vulcan Bomber - Electrical Engineering Station 

Cadbury Welsh Walk 2006 - at 53N 4W - the full set of pictures are
here

A mornings cricket with Martin

Ascot - the pictures are here

I went to Stonehenge for the Solstice - the pictures are here

Twenty or so years ago - this was the route I took back to Bethesda - we started the 14 peaks at 04:30 but because of poor discipline and foul weather and poor visibility it was close to midnight before we started our descent. This was in the days before mobile phones - I wonder what our support crew were thinking? The third party that set out from the A5 to climb Pen-Yr-Olwen ended up spending the night in the refuge on Foel Grach.

Gyrn Wigau, Carneddau - lots of strangely silent and still seagulls here - big ones of at least two types. Perhaps they were quiet because they were hunting - I wonder what?

A view of Drosgl and Gyrn Wigau (left) from Bera Bach

Bera Bach (little haystack), Carneddau