Our photos on the theme of "Steps"

With so much happening in December, we all had an extra month to come up with a photo to represent "steps".  

Here they all are - a mixture of Christmas related ones + others, depending on which month people took them in.

Gill - our hotel foyer in Budapest

Gaynor - the steps down into Dublin Bay

The following 2 extra photos show what was actually happening on Christmas Day!

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Sue - “Hotel in Petersham at Christmas”

Don - The 62 steps down the alley from Windmill Hill to Kings Pond

Rosie - steps on the way to the pantomime in Winchester

John - Hengistbury Head on Boxing Day

Danny - steps at the Natural History Museum in Oxford

Ken - steps on the way to my lipreading class in Winchester

Kate - Stairway to Heaven - Altostratus Undulatus

Kate - steps at Thean Thou Temple, Kuala Lumpur

Steve - "No more steps possible"

Keith - steps leading to 3rd level Angkor Wat. 

The original steps and the ones we used. Biggest Religious Site in the World.

Jack - "Steps" - the pop group

That's all folks!
...............  except to tell you that our topic for February is "close-up"

Our "sport" photos - November 2019

I have been very lenient this month in terms of stretching the rules!  Steve has 3 photos on show and Jan's submissions probably haven't been taken during the month of November - at least not November 2019! 

To start with here is a clip of some pretty  amazing table tennis skills:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/table-tennis/50434617

Now for the photos:

Steve - Dad and I still smiling after the World Cup!

Don - celebrating 50 years of team tennis (1969-2019)

Sue - who can forget the power of Nelson Mandela?

Ken - indoor sport!

Jan - ancient sport!

Jan -  extra photo for those who like to see the fine detail!

Kate - the winning serve at the ATP final

Keith - we got Sky put in 3 weeks after we moved house and celebrated by watching a American Football game, live!

John - The Ashes!

Steve - the mural in Alton Leisure centre before it is demolished

Ailsa - most definitely NOT a sport ... but the bullring in Seville is still in use! 

Gaynor - Landsdowne Road

Steve - the skiing marmot!  

Ailsa - the sport of Kings!

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................ and for those of us who have some spare time in December to think about it,  our topic is "Steps"

Our "Autumn" photos - October 2019

The theme for this month was "Autumn" and here is what you have all come up with.

I will start with Sue, as she has sent me 2 photos - the first one is a poster/instructions for a flower arrangement from the florist and her second one is her actual finished arrangement.

Sue - my instructions!

Sue - my finished arrangement!

Gill - pumpkin fest!

Kate - flowers and fruit from the allotment

Ken - harvesting the grapes at Denbies Vineyard in Dorking

Keith - the leaves are falling yet the roses linger on

Ailsa - Autumn in Alice Holt Forest

John - leaves on the Leaf!

Jan - autumn ghost

Rosie - autumn harvest

Gaynor - Autumnal Sunday in Cambridge

Angela

Don - long autumnal shadows on Windmill Hill

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 Here is another one from Don from way back in 2007 - I couldn't refuse him as Sue had 2 this month!

The woods in Selborne

Steve - my Autumn project

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with the rugby final happening tomorrow, our topic for November is "Sport" - enjoy!

Our "Music" photos - September 2019

Our topic this month was "music".  However, before we get to the photos, here are a couple of articles that I came across in September that fit in well with the theme.

The first one features various open air rehearsal spaces that musicians use:

https://www.jonenoch.com/jon-enoch-blog/2019/9/16/rehearsal-room-london-musicians-new-portrait-photography-series


..... and this one features old pianos in ruined venues - "forgotten pianos":

https://mymodernmet.com/requiem-for-pianos-romain-thiery/

Jan

Ailsa - Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, taken at Menton, Cote d’Azur

John - George would have been proud of this!

Don - violin sculpture in lobby at C'an Picafort Hotel in Majorca

Helen - a painting by one of the students at Perin's School

Kate - university students busking in Porto

Ken - a wind/aeolian harp in a pavilion in the Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh

Angela

Steve - stucco plasterwork harp at St John's House , Winchester

Sue H - "The Musician"

Rosie

Gaynor - the music of language

.......................  and our topic for October is "autumn".  Have fun with it!

A goodbye KIT for Gaynor!

Calling it a GIT doesn't quite work!

8 of us staged the 40th KIT this afternoon in honour of Gaynor who is leaving us in a few days to live elsewhere.

John, Jan, Geoff, Hilary, Anne, Ken, Rosie and Angela had a lovely afternoon in the sunshine playing tennis - Gaynor watched along with a few other people who popped down to say goodbye to her.

In order to fit in afternoon tea we played a shortened version of a KIT with the winners being the 2 people with the highest scores in the round robin matches.

Anne came out on top with a stunning 20 points with Geoff 2nd on 14 points, so they were declared our winners today.

Then we got down to the more serious business of eating and chatting!