Letters - July 2023

Before getting to the images you have all sent in on the theme of "Letters", please have a look at this short clip demonstrating the BSL alphabet - then you can practise!

BSL - how to finger-spell

Done that?

Then you can have a look at the photographs - enjoy!

Don - almost 200 letters written by me to my parents between 1963-1970, whilst I was away at an all boy’s boarding school in Devon.

(I was unaware my Father had retained these until after he died in 2000!)

Ken - I don't think I could manage to cope with the homework given out at school these days - Rowan (aged 5) was asked to write an acrostic poem for his weekend homework!

Sue - a nice place for correspondence

Kate - my Aldi prosecco has a screw top! 

Keith - a view of the Danube from Melk Abbey 

Steve - letters - punctuation - a comma butterfly!

Gill - "Gill & Tim" or "Gin & Tonic"!

John - just a few letters but had to be 2 photos

Gaynor

Gaynor - lettuce etc!

Steve - with a similar interpretation of the word as Gaynor!

(With humble apologies to anyone suffering from dyslexia, here’s our Riverford specimen being enjoyed by Slimbridge geese!)

Jan

That's it folks!

Your photographic challenge for the month of August is:

 "Change"

On the Edge - June 2023

This month's topic of "on the edge" produced the usual wonderful variety of interesting interpretations on the subject - and also quite a few multiple entries! 

Enjoy!

Ken - Wolvesey Castle wall in Winchester

Ken - living on the edge of the River Itchen in new Alresford

 

Sue - on the edge of a bit of a splash!

John - on the (h)edge!

Meanwhile Gill had taken the boat across to Skomer Island:

.... and Don had headed to Devon:

Don - photograph taken ‘on the edge’ of the cliff at Prawle Point which is the most southerly point of the Devon coastline

Don - ‘Life on the Edge’ T-shirt highlighting the programme to help restore thriving populations of some of the UK’s rarest insects living along the South Devon Coast.

Don - ‘On the edge’ at the 6th hole at Alton golf course, 

highlighting the oft given advice of Tim Guilding to ‘never leave it short’!!

....and just to confirm that quotation/instruction from Tim, here is a photo of the trophy that is given to the winner of Tim's golf competition!

Keith - a cautious Violet on the edge of the step, clearly thinking about the next step down!!

and Henry obligingly solved Grandad Grump’s’ (aka Steve!) conundrum over this month's challenge!

However with the extra week's extension to our deadline, Steve also managed to fit in this selection from his trip to Wimbledon on the first day of play:

Kate sent in 4 photos - displaying, rather worryingly,  a humour similar to John!

"on the (h)edge" - again!

Kate - spotted at the Butts Road garage

Kate - I wanted to do one like this but couldn’t make it to Trolltunga. 

(from my son’s travel photos)

Gaynor - on the edge (river cam)  

Gaynor -  cycling/rowing/being a duck

Jan

..... and our topic (number 55!) for the rest of July is:

"Letters"