The old ferry slipway at Kyleakin. Caisteal Maol is in the darkness to the right. The ruins are floodlit at night. The lights went out five seconds before this photograph was taken...

The river flows into Loch Scridain, via Loch Beg, on the SW of the Isle of Mull.

"Sand traps" if you are American, "trouble" if you are over 12 (handicap) and "sandpit" if you are under 12 (years of age).

Increasingly rare winter snow at the mill. January 2005

This fragment in the Vennel is the last remaining turret of the Flodden Wall, the extension of the wall of the city begun after the defeat of James IV at Flodden.

This is the delightful sight that greets visitors approaching Carradale Harbour from the sea.

Newton Pool is a nature reserve and has a small hide

Trees are currently being felled and replanted

Photographed from the back garden of one of the houses

Dent Station is the highest mainline station in England at 1,150 feet above sea level; it is on the Settle-Carlisle Line.

Also known as Mount Strange, this is the spot where in 1662 the Manx patriot
Illiam Dhone was executed.

View of dining room with flocked wallpaper before refurbishment in 2011

A nice crisp winter day

The view across to Pule Hill

Stairs House was built in the late 18th century and remodelled in the late 19th century. It was grade II listed (1388631) in August 1973.

A late 17th century historic pub on North End, Wirksworth, Derbyshire.

Test the boots!

This picture was taken standing in front of the triangulation marker on the top of Stagborough Hill. The view looks towards the Lickhill area of Stourport-on-Severn and the River Severn. The churned up earth in the foreground is due to the fact that the landowner sometimes allows owners of 4x4 vehicles to charge around this part of the hill.

The small village of Spratton has a wonderful church that is open for services and also has a small coffee shop inside that is open several times a week.

Still in use. My great-grandfather was a lay preacher here in the 1890s.

This is one of a number on the golf course. When we were there it was very windy and we were glad of the shelter.

About 400 metres away from the middle of the small settlement.

William George died June 7th 1864, aged 44 years. He was a schoolmaster who worked in North Wales and in Manchester before ill health forced him and his family to return to Jordanston. He left behind a wife who was expecting their third child and two children, Mary Ellen George aged about 3 years and David Lloyd George aged one, who was to become Prime Minister of Great Britain and Ireland from 1916 to 1922. After William George's death, the family returned to the birthplace of the widow, Elizabeth, at Llanystumdwy, Gwynedd, North Wales.

Bilingual plaque - the English says:
Built entirely out of local limestone quarried from the local railway cutting. It stands over 90 feet high and over 448 feet long, and was built in 1866 to carry coal and lime.
Merthyr Tidfil Heritage Trust

From the Hythe Ferry Terminal

Now a boatyard, formerly a C18 warehouse, and on the opposite side of the River Yar from the town and its harbour. "This building originally stored sand from Alum Bay before shipment to the mainland for glass making. It is in the only old industrial building in Yarmouth harbour." Link Note the ball finial at the right-hand end, and the fact that the lowest two rows of slates are of stone. Seen from Yar Bridge.

Footpath 58 runs between Bow Bridge and The Causeway near Afton Manor, separated here from the River Yar by a thin belt of reeds.

A small cove below Rinsey Head, accessed, with difficulty, via a narrow track from the South West Coast path above.