Tuesday 30 November 2021

To start with, here is an interesting little poem by Matt Haig,
from his book "Reasons to Stay Alive"

“How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.”

....... and here are your various photos from this month on the subject of "time":

Sue - Alton's own sundial

Ken - in the children's section of Winchester Discovery Centre

Ken - by the Buttercross monument in Winchester

Steve - ancient & modern

Gill - time to get off my kindle!

Keith - fireworks at 7:30!

Kate - Waterloo station clock turned red for the Poppy appeal as the

Royal Marine Band played underneath - Remembrance Time.

Kate - there is always time for a doughnut!

John

Jan - time for tea!

(I think John is just out of the picture waiting patiently!)

Gaynor - time-out from screen time

(upside down desk/computer/lamp & vase in the Cambridge botanical gardens)

Gaynor - time goes by

(note from Ken - here is some interesting info on the Corpus Clock:

................ and we finish with something from the birthday boy!

Don - time to celebrate my watch’s 49th birthday. Worn most days over almost 5 decades. Strap changed several times but still keeping excellent time!

............... our December topic is going to be "relaxation".

Have fun with it!

Monday 22 November 2021

KIT - 22nd November 2021

A cold but sunny start to the day meant that we had to use our initiative and utilise one of the bottom courts while court 1 thawed out - thank you to whoever thought of that idea!

The players this morning were Gill, Rosie, Sue and Kate + Keith, Arthur, John and Ken.

After adding up all the points from the "group" stage, the final ended up as:

Sue & Ken v Kate & Arthur

It was a close final with Kate and Arthur winning by 6-4. Congratulations to them - and well done on winning at the first attempt Arthur!

The winners!

Monday 1 November 2021

KIT - Monday 1st November

The players in today's KIT were:

Nigel, Keith, John H, Ken + Gill, Rosie, Sue H & Anne

This was the 43rd running of the tournament and the first time that all 4 ladies ended up on the same points!

It meant that it would have been very tricky to work out who would play in the final so we decided to just have a men's doubles and a ladies' doubles.

The tennis was great in both the rounds and the final matches and overall Nigel was the one who played the best and won the most points so he went home with the KIT trophy - the first person to be awarded it as an individual!

Congratulations Nigel and well played!

Sunday 31 October 2021

Walls - October 2021

Here are all your submissions on the topic of "walls", starting with a series of 4 photos from Steve as he sunk lower and lower into Summerton Deep lock on the Oxford canal, at the beginning of this month.

It was a 12’ drop! The gate wouldn’t open fully and they nearly had to call Waterways to help as they thought they might not be able to escape!

Still in Oxford, here are a couple from Ken of a wall in Old Headington

Don - Chichester

Gill - a sunny Cob in Lyme Regis

John

...... and, not to be outdone, another ice-cream one from Jan!

Jan - a non ice-cream one taken at Beaulieu Abbey

Sue, with 2 different walls on the Isle of Wight:

Kate - Barlings Abbey.

We arrived at our rental house in the dark and woke up the next morning to find this in the field behind us. What a wall!

Rosie - on a walk through Four Marks

Keith - newly painted lounge. The colour is "Mizzle" - very restful!

Here are 2 photos from Gaynor of The Great South Wall, Dublin.

(18th century engineering genius, original length 3.5 miles)

Gaynor - urban fox on a wall

As you all seem very keen to keep going with the photographs and, as the clocks have just changed this weekend, I have decided that our next topic should be "Time".

Make of that what you will!