Medstead Tennis Club members in action

This is how some of the members from Medstead have been entertaining themselves during lockdown!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWmPOEFF1l8&feature=youtu.be

My Garden

As we have been spending so much time in our gardens during the lockdown, it seemed appropriate to pick this as our topic for this month.  
You can have as many photos each as you like this month!

Gill

Ken - crab apple blossom in front of a silver birch

Don - this is what happens if you plant a conker with your grandchild in 2016!

Stacey

Jan - the Gardener in the Garden!

Sarah - Alton in Bloom - "Scarecrow"

Sarah

Catherine - new house, new garden!

Catherine

Catherine

Ken - Papa blackbird, taking a moment's pause from parenting duties

.............. and baby blackbird waiting to be fed!

Keith - we have a large garden in our "new" house!

John

Gill - lupin

Angela

Angela

Angela

Ailsa

Ailsa

Sue - my vegetable garden!

Kate - garden from the patio

Kate - garden from the window

Kate - memories of Dad

Kate - gathering lilacs in the Spring again

Jan

Dan

Hilary

Hilary - Looks good. Smells good.

Rosie

Rosie

Rosie

John - our fellow drinker!

Gaynor - afternoon tea in the shed

Mervyn

Mervyn

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Our topic for June will be more of a challenge I think!  The National Gallery has produced a short clip to do with still life paintings, to encourage people to make their own version.

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/stories/make-and-create-construct-a-still-life?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NG_2020May_MakeandDoing_NM&utm_content=version_A

The clip only lasts 10 minutes so if you have the time (!!) you will hopefully enjoy watching it.  At the end it suggests the sorts of things that you might like to put in your still life - basically some guidance for you.

However don’t worry too much about following the "instructions" exactly - do what you want and experiment!  For this topic you are allowed to play around with photo editing software if you want to and have it.  You can again send in as many photos as you like.  Enjoy!

Movement

While the deadline for our "Movement" photos is now the end of April, I have decided to put them up as they come in this time.
  
Normally you are only allowed 1 image but in these very strange times all the rules are relaxed - whatever you send me I will publish though I can't upload videos to this blog.  Obviously everything will be vetted for good taste!
  
Don't forget that you can also send me images of how you are coping with the lockdown.  You can see these in the previous "post" - just keep scrolling down to find them.

Don - Water slide in Thailand - and yes I did go down it ONCE!

John in Sainsburys - he thought this could go into both posts

Steve - Little Egret at Cobnor Point

Sarah - "The Bourne" keeps flowing

Ailsa - our neighbour, Matty, enjoying an early evening run.
No '1 hour a day exercise’ rule for him!

Gaynor - during lockdown in Aotearoa, reverting to English "toilet humour"!

Gaynor - HRH, the future Monarch!

Gill - moving out of hibernation!

Kate - happy days before the lockdown!

John, or perhaps Jan - Movement (or lack thereof!)

John - Winchester City Mill

Stacey - on the Watercress Line before the lockdown

Ken - drawing a heart with a candle!

Gill - acer coming into leaf

Angela - not too much movement in the Waitrose queue!


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................. our topic for June is "My Garden".