#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAForAbandoned My late dog Merly, trying his best to look abandoned & get the sympathy vote! In reality we were moving house & he was in his crate to stop him being trampled on 🙂

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAForAbandoned Abandoned farm buildings at Old Kea near Truro ,Cornwall.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAForAbandoned The ruins of Great Work Mine near Godolphin, Cornwall.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekZForZany Some modern art could be described as zany! This is Harbour Window With Two Figures by Patrick Heron, on display at Tate St Ives 🙂

#AlphabetChallenge #Zany Leaning into the whimsical for this one, this place card at Melford Hall in Suffolk was hand-drawn by Beatrix Potter, who visited often 🙂

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekZForZany An ornamental peacock in Oakham, Rutland 🙂

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekZForZany An oversized advertising teapot at last year’s Royal Cornwall Show 🙂

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekZForZany I love this wallpaper at St Austell Library. My favorites are the squirrel reading ‘How To Protect Your Nuts’ and the chipmunk with ‘Chip Happens’ 😂 Also #WallpaperWednesday

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekZForZany An interesting grotesque on Ely Cathedral. I couldn’t tell whether it was a gargoyle or not, I guess the mouth may have held a water pipe at some stage?

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekZForZany Tolgus the lamb. Redruth’s mascot, in the library dressed as a detective for their murder mystery evening back in April 🙂

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekYForYonder The ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle, taken from the coast path near Craster, Northumberland.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekYForYonder Taken from a train leaving Penzance station, you can just about make out St Michael’s Mount in the distance 😎

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekYForYonder A lonesome tree at Dyrham Park near Bath

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekYForYonder St Michael’s Tower, atop Glastonbury Tor, Somerset. Also #Thursgate

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekYForYonder The River Tamar in the distance, near St Germans, Cornwall

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekYForYonder A gazebo beyond a sea of lavender at Trerice, Cornwall

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekXForXyloid Ornate restored wooden ceiling & rood loft in St John’s church, Frome, Somerset. Also #CeilingsOnSunday

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekXForXyloid Behind the scenes at the Octagon Tower, Ely Cathedral.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekXForXyloid Stack of timber on the Arlington estate, Devon

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekXForXyloid Wooden bridge on the Wimpole Estate, Cambridgeshire

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekXForXyloid Wooden boardwalk through the nature reserve on Brownsea Island

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekXForXyloid 3 fabulous famous trees - the Sycamore Gap tree in 2023, a few months before it was tragically cut down 😢, The Tolpuddle tree, under which the martyrs met, & ‘that’ apple tree at Woolsthorpe Manor, Isaac Newton’s birthplace 🙂 Also #ThickTrunkTuesday

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekXForXyloid Wooden squirrel pew end in the chapel at Compton Castle, near Paignton, Devon. A squirrel features on the Gilbert family coat of arms 🙂🐿️

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWForWater We’re blessed in the south west with lidos & sea pools 😎 Bude sea pool, Jubilee Pool, Penzance & Tinside Lido, Plymouth.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWForWater The National Trust have a few moated houses/castles - here are 3 I’ve visited - Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk, Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire & Bodiam Castle, East Sussex 🙂

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWForWater Ornamental pond & fountain at the Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornwall.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWForWater I love being out on the water, whether it’s on a boat or kayak. Photos of a boat trip at Flatford, Suffolk & exploring the Percuil River by kayak 😎

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWForWater The River Valency flowing through Boscastle, Cornwall Also #WallsOnWednesday

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWForWater Bude Canal, Cornwall.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWForWater Peaceful Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire ❤️

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVForVocals Authors @phillipaashley.bsky.social @emmacowellauthor.bsky.social ( speaking) & @lizfenwick.bsky.social being interviewed by Tiffany Truscott at Truro Waterstones last year 😃📚❤️

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVForVocals Me with lovely author Jennie Godfrey who I met at a talk at Waterstones in Truro earlier this year, & with an equally lovely LJ Ross at Hexham book festival last year. Authors are my heroes & I enjoy attending events when I can 🙂📚

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVForVocals Kylie at the Eden Sessions back in 2019 😎

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVForVocals Singer Bailey Tomkinson at the Cornish Bank in Falmouth, a popular live music venue 🙂

#AlohabetChallenge #WeekVForVocals A couple of the vocalists from Northern Live - Do I Love You? on stage at the Hall for Cornwall last year 😎

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUForUniform Not taken by me, but a family photo of my Dad in his army uniform, taken in Berlin during the airlift period.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUForUniform Whilst visiting Blickling in Norfolk I had a look round the excellent RAF museum there, dedicated to the men & women who served at RAF Oundle during WWII.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUForUniform A painting of Major Adrian Drew in his army uniform. Sadly, the eldest son of Julius Drewe, builder of Castle Drogo in Devon, was killed during WWI

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUForUniform Also #WallsOnWednesday Street art, St Austell, Cornwall

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUForUniform One of a series of paintings by William Bell Scott depicting the history of the English/Scots border, on display at Wallington Hall, Northumberland. King Egfrid, Bishop Trumwine & Cuthbert all in their respective uniforms.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUForUniform A volunteer at Lanhydrock, Cornwall, dressed in the uniform of a butler 🙂

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTForTime An ancient way to tell the time. Sundial on St Michael’s Mount, Cornwall.

#DailyScreensaver #AlphabetChallenge Also #PostboxSaturday A postbox always displays the time it should (theoretically at least!) be emptied 🙂 Long Melford, Suffolk

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTForTime The lovely estate clock at Cragside, Northumberland, which chimed to let workers who lived in the nearby village know when it was time to come to work 🙂

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTForTime Also #PubSignThursday The Elizabeth Tower containing Big Ben shows its famous clock face on this pub sign in Padstow, Cornwall 🙂

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTForTime Also #WallsOnWednesday The lovely old sundial set into the wall at Max Gate, Dorchester was designed by Thomas Hardy, who also designed the house, in which he lived until he died.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTForTime The old clocking in machine at Geevor Tin Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. The old clocking in cards are still there too.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTForTime An invitation to take your time to relax & enjoy the view at Wells Harbour, Norfolk 🙂

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSForSongs “Umbrella” by Rihanna Heligan Night Garden

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSForSongs “Up On The Roof” by The Drfters High up on Ely Cathedral’s roof on the Octagon Tower 😃