I described the sequence of events of my badger encounter in an earlier entry. The non-badger photos I posted in various communities. To recap, this was 20 September of last year in Northend, in the Chilterns. It had rained but the sun came out later in the day ( Read more... )

I took these photos on 20 September, starting my walk from Northend in the Chilterns. This was the badger walk, but I'm saving the badger photos for a separate post.


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On a walk starting from Buckland Common on 16 September, I found a surprising amount of picturesque, abandoned machinery. The photos are now up on Flickr. Here are a few samples.


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I went on a short walk in late September near Pishill. The first two photos, are from Pishill church, the third from a pasture on the other side of the B480 from the church.

Backlit yew berries in the church yard of Pishill. I spent a little while there and inside the cosy, little church.

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Something really cool happened to me yesterday evening. In fact, I'm still excited about it. I was out walking in the Chilterns, enjoying the sunny, mellow late autumn afternoon. The lane I was walking on was Hollandridge Lane, near Hollandridge FarmI had just met a nice woman with a little terrier. The terrier was probably a bit too fond of ( Read more... )

Last weekend I went for another walk in Ballinger Common. This time I took another route. The sweet jars below I found in the window of an abandoned shop in Lee Common. You can see the set on Flickr or the slideshow.


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On Sunday I went walking in the Chilterns. I started at the cricket pitch in Ballinger Common, and walked to Chartridge and Ashridge and returned by way of Pednor. This is similar to a walk I took in November 2000.

The result is on Flickr. Here's the set, and here is the slideshow. There's only one traditional landscape. The other nine photos ( Read more... )

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This weekend Kieron came to visit me in the Big Smoke. We went to Stowe Landscape Garden yesterday. It's a fantastic place. We spent 2 hours there but there were still lots of monuments and follies we didn't see.

Following the advice of my recently purchased book about good pub eats, we had dinner at the Woolpack in Stoke Mandeville on the way ( Read more... )