Gerda's photo blog : September 2009

Tuesday 29 September 2009

Sept 29

Sunrise colours this morning - brief but glorious!

Sept 25

Autumn has arrived here, the trees are beginning to change colour:

Sept 24

Team huddle after they won the match against Middlesex yesterday:

Thursday 24 September 2009

Sept 23 -- Elko plays for the London Irish Academy squad!!

Wednesday 23 September 2009

Tuesday 22 September 2009

Sept 19

Going from deep red to pale pink..,. this is the palest one:

Sept 18

Autumn is here, but my roses are still flowering - just a few blooms left:

OK, not a picture I took = special circumstances!

This is the Carriage House Inn, in Standedge... where Andy finally had to give up his walk and decide to come home. He could not walk without leaning on a walking stick with both hands... time to go home.... So by 3pm he was home today...

Monday 14 September 2009

Sept 14

Elko has been training with the London Irish Academy the last couple of weeks:

Sept 13

Bye bye old sofa; I was glad to have been given you 5 years ago, but it's time to go take you to the local sofa-resting-place.. aka the local tip!

Saturday 12 September 2009

Sept 12 New....

I love our new sofas!! The ones to the left of the fireplace are literally going from wall to wall, and that is just over three meters (10ft) and it is just under 1 meter (3ft) wide..
Wide enough to give a long-legged teenager a proper seat too :)

Sept 11 Old...

Friday 11 September 2009

Sept 10

And these posters show some of the services the group offers. Quite colourful I think!

Sept 9

Our company has changed!

We joined a bigger group of companies and today saw the launch of the new 'brand' and logo's etc.
This is the sign outside our building:

Tuesday 8 September 2009

Sept 8

Hawes waterfall:

Monday 7 September 2009

Sept 7

The Yorkshire Dales are just beautiful:

And this was one of my fellow road users:

They roam free around the fields on the hills, and the farmers use cattle grids on the roads to stop them straying to the next farm! I had got quite used to sharing the road with free roaming sheep... cows was a new experience for me!
And this one refused to budge over, so I moved the car to the left... and the cow moved to the left.. so I moved to the right.. and the cow just kept on heading to the car. She eventually veered slightly and walked past us with inches to spare. Once she had passed us, she stopped and looked back at us as if to say: "What are you doing??!" LOL!!

Sept 6

Hardraw Force; with a drop of 100ft it is the largest single drop waterfall in the UK and just as we got there the sun broke through the clouds, so I could capture the little rainbow at the bottom of the waterfall:

And to give an idea of the scale: yes that is me, crouched down on the right:

Sept 5

A man and his castle: Andy in front of Bolton Castle:

And his moor: East Bolton Moor:

And this is East Gill Force, a pretty little waterfall in Keld:

Sept 4

I drove up to Yorkshire to visit Andy. It had been a long 61/2 weeks since he set off on his journey!

This one was taken as I drove up to Horton-in-Ribblesdale and shows Pen-y-Ghent. This is one of the "three peaks" and is 2273ft high. Somewhere along the line I have promised to walk up this mountain come next spring...!!