This week’s photo challenge was a real challenge for me… I’m not the most orderly person (friends and family will agree I’m sure). Anyway, while on a walk on the Upper Rock this week, I looked down upon the small boat marina and thought it looked very orderly, all the neat rows…
Yesterday I was parking close to the marina and took the top photo. Not only did the small boats oblige in their orderliness, eagle eyed readers may also notice that a British Airways plane was coming in to land at Gibraltar airport and lined itself up perfectly between the Disney Cruise ship and Yacht ‘A’ which was docked too.
I’m linking with Nana Cathy and Wild Daffodil for this weekly photo challenge throughout 2017.
There can only be one for me, bearing in mind where we live….
… Europa Point of course!
The Trinity Lighthouse stands guard over the Strait of Gibraltar, at the Rock’s southernmost tip – Europa Point. On a clear day the mountains across the Strait in Morocco look almost close enough to touch.
I still find it amazing that I can see northern Africa from my home!
Perhaps this shot (below) puts it into more perspective, taken from the Med Steps.
The Lighthouse had a makeover recently and is now looking better than ever (see top picture).
You can get a bird’s eye view of Europa Point as you take off fromor come in to land at Gibraltar airport. Sadly the murky conditions when I took this photo meant the Lighthouse isn’t clear, but you can see the Mosque…
Here’s the Mosque on a clearer day standing beside the Lighthouse and looking north along the Mediterranean coast.
I’m joining with Nana Cathy and Wild Daffodil for this weekly photo challenge throughout 2017.
Greetings from very sunny Portugal this week. Not the longest post this time due to the slowest wifi I have ever experienced! (It must be on holiday speed too!) This is Parliament Lane in Gibraltar, home of the Star Bar, the oldest bar on the Rock and my contribution for this week’s photo challenge. This weekly photo challenge throughout 2017 is organised by Nana Cathy & Wild Daffodil.
I am currently in England with the Little Postcards and today, while at the Dunham Massey National Trust property, I happened upon this rather distinguished pair.
I’m joining with Nana Cathy and Wild Daffodil for this weekly photo challenge throughout 2017.
Apologies for this week’s rather uninspiring entry to the photo challenge, things have been a bit hectic of late and I didn’t have room in my brain to come up with a more inspiring one!
PS I’m kicking myself for not including this photo in last week’s entry for ‘wave’…
… so I’ve put it into this week’s – is that cheating??! 😉
Living in a tiny place which is surrounded on sides by sea makes this week’s photo challenge a cinch. That said though, my first photos feature a rather choppy North Sea taken at one of our favourite places; Southwold in Suffolk.
Although most of my childhood holidays were spent on the west coast of the British Isles, the temperature and colour of the sea in Southwold are the same as what I was used to as a child. Rarely was it a pleasureable experience to go paddling in the sea, but you still do it when you’re a child!
Now for some waves a little closer to our current home…
Just look at that turquoise water!
Quick! Out of the way!!
Aah that’s better!
Catalan Bay Beach, Gibraltar
I’m linking with Nana Cathy and Wild Daffodil for this weekly photo challenge throughout 2017.
All three of the Little Postcards have loved a bedtime story, just as I remember enjoying my Mum and Dad reading to me as a child. My Dad’s impressions of Len the Lighthouse keeper’s wife, shouting for him to “Lower the rope!” to get his food deliveries in this Play School story book are as vivid to me 40 years on!
I can remember giggling so much as the howling wind and crashing waves prevented his order of supplies from getting through so he got lemonade instead of marmalade and so on. In the days of online supermarket deliveries this must seem alien to children nowadays… (For reference, the story was Marmalade for Breakfast by Judy Whitfield).
How appropriate that I should remember this the day after Father’s Day… Illustration by David Eaton of ‘Marmalade for Breakfast’ by Judy Whitfield
The bookshelf in the top photo is in Littlest Postcard’s bedroom and still features a few baby books which have been passed down from both of his brothers. They are no longer read but when I tidied the shelf recently and had a sort out I couldn’t bring myself to part with them.
Twinkly Night by Helen Stephens was a favourite of all three when they were very small because of the glittery foil on the pages and was acquired for free from a Government book scheme Books for Babies when we still lived in England.
I also secretly love the Thomas the Tank Engine stories I read endlessly to my eldest. I liked the idea of this little island of Sodor… (perhaps I should get out more). His two younger brothers had less interest in the adventures of the little blue train and his friends but similarly I was loathe to part with the books. Perhaps one of their children will like them one day?
This photo (above) featured in Sunday Sevens over Christmas time and was a rather clever way to display books in the foyer to the building which houses the public library here in Gibraltar. People were invited to guess how many books were used to build the alternative Christmas tree and win a prize.
This little chap got lost last year. I got the fright of my life as I walked past the lounge door and spied him flying about indoors – he must’ve taken a wrong turning and flown in through the open front door. When I tried to rescue him he got himself trapped between the sashes of our old wooden windows.
Thankfully I have a young botanist in the house and he rose to the challenge of rescuing the Blue Tit. We brought him outside and popped him on the balcony. I fully expected him to fly off straight away but he stayed for a while to compose himself before scooting off to find his friends.
I’m linking with Wild Daffodil and Nana Cathy for this we key photo challenge throughout 2017.
