School Outing to the Old Fort

A happy band of children enjoying an afternoon on a school visit to the Old Fort, Kannur, Kerala, India.

 

Derbyshire Drystone

Each region of the country that has outcrops and quarries, and uses stone for making walls, has its own style of wall construction. These are especially neatly laid and well maintained. I have no idea where we are! We drove out of Sheffield which is in Yorkshire and headed for the Peak District in Derbyshire. It was a lovely day. We had a grand walk with the dog and the grandchildren. What more could you ask!

 

Evening Sky

I want you to try and imagine relaxing in a comfortable seat as we slowly drift along in our boat as the light fades.

Listen to the sounds of the gently lapping water.

The call of a bird carries across the water and in the distance, a long way off, there’s a radio playing music.

The voices of our friends descends to just a murmur as we savour the moment…..

That’s India….

 

A Street Vendor

This guy was sitting on the shoreline at Fort Kochi alongside people selling fish. He was hopefully doing business demonstrating and selling the parts of a Spirograph drawing game…..

 

A Game of Cricket

An impromptu game of cricket of the sort that you see many engaged in throughout India on an afternoon that was strangely quiet owing to a general strike that was afflicting Kerala. This photo was taken in Ernakulam, not far from Fort Kochi.

 

Siesta

A quiet moment during afternoon tea in a lovely old cottage in the Blists Hill Victorian Museum in Shropshire, England, and given an old masters treatment.

 

Clydesdales

A visit yesterday into the hinterland took me, in the company of members of the Stewartry Camera Club, to Blackstone Clydesdales near Cumnock.

This is the first time that I have tried my hand at photographing horses….and beauties they were!

Perhaps that accounts for the fact that I only caught his nose….definitely the best part though!

 

Through the Roof

Conversation piece.

 

The Bank Manager

Queen Victoria, Empress of India, looks down on the manager of the bank in the Victorian town at Blists Hill open air museum.

 

Vazhachal Forest

Perhaps we might not associate the south of India with dramatic landscapes, but the mountains that border Kerala and Tamil Nadu have some impressive peaks and river valleys, forest reserves and wildlife sanctuaries.

This is the Chalakkudy River Gorge in the Shoylar Reserve Forest. Just a short way downstream are the Athirappilly waterfalls which I would love to visit in the wet season.