KIT - April 2022

 Today's KIT was contested between:

Gill, Sue, Emma and Rosie + Arthur, Graham, Nigel and Ken

As always, It was great fun and it ended up with a final of:

Rosie & Nigel v Gill & Ken

It was a close final with Rosie & Nigel winning 7-5.

 The winners in April 2022!

Horizon - March 2022

Here are your photographs taken this month on the theme of "Horizon"

Sue - Tenerife horizon

Don -  Pacific sunset at Huntington Beach, Los Angeles - note the oil rigs on the horizon!

Ken - the horizon in my garden from the hedgehog's viewpoint!

Gaynor - "G'day Cambridge!"

 Kate - Old Winchester Hill. A favourite place to go on a lovely day and imagine the lives of people 4,000 years ago, looking out at their horizons.

Jan - Sunny skies from Magdalen Hill

Steve - Poppit Sands nr Newport Pembroke

...... and this is Angela's photo of the very same Poppit Sands

Angela - Newport Bay, Pembrokeshire

John - the view from my bedroom window

Gill - sadly the tree was diseased, but the horizon has got clearer!

and the last photo this month is another one from John!

............ and next month our topic is "Bird(s)"

KIT - 28th March 2022

Today's KIT was played between Nigel, Arthur, John & Ken + Gill, Emma, Rosie & Sue.

It was great tennis as usual with some very long rallies and close games.

In the end the final ended up as:

Sue & Arthur v Rosie & Ken 

with Rosie and Ken coming out as the winners:

Rosie & Ken - winners of the 45th KIT competition - March 2022.  

Display - February 2022

Cats seemed to feature quite a bit in last month's images - this month it looks like it is flowers!

With this month's topic of "display" it seems appropriate that we start by highlighting the display of statesmanship & leadership shown by the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky.  An actor and comedian by training, he has shown himself to be quite inspirational as a leader during this time of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia - he is on a completely different level to what we have in this country!

One thing you may not know is that he was the voice of Paddington Bear in the Ukrainian version of the film!

Here are the images that you have asked me to include, starting with a couple from Sue:

Sue - A fruit display in Tenerife

Sue - Hibiscus on display in the Canaries

Kate - Chinese New Year display

Kate - Spring has Sprung display!

Don - wonderful snowdrop display at Chawton House

John - red arrows display!

Ken - a woollen educational display at Kew Gardens

(I had to look up most of these words!)

Jan - a display of resourcefulness!

Jan - I wish this display was in my garden!

Angela - 2 photos showing displays in my garden 

Gaynor

Gill - waiting for England to put on a winning display!!

Keith - a display of Tea Pots in a Coffee shop at the St James Club Resort, Antigua.

Steve - fast, friendly and fun

(our Comet display board and stand at the dinghy show) 

................ and the last word / image comes from Gaynor in Dublin:

....and our topic for March is "Horizon"

Relax - December 2021 / January 2022

With so much happening over Christmas and the New Year period, we left the "Relax" topic to run for the 2 months of December and January.

Here is what you have all sent in - animals seem to feature quite a lot!

Angela - the red panda at Marwell zoo

Steve - now relax!

Jan - with a couple of cat photos!

Sue - what better on a January evening, blue Monday, than to relax with a friend!

John 

Keith - this picture of relaxation after a game with her catnip mouse sums up our cat Tilly perfectly!

And in a change from cats, here are a couple of dog ones from Kate!

Relaxing after Christmas lunch

................ and a relaxed dog after the visitors had left!

Don - After numerous tennis game cancellations due to frost on the courts, I had to turn to my indoor relaxation of:

Genealogy research!

Ken - gentle Mandala colouring

Gaynor - relaxed, post Xmas!

Gaynor - relaxation, January walk, Wicken Fen

As usual, an interesting selection of photos from you all - thank you!

...................... and our topic for February is "Display"

Time - 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!

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

Have fun with it!