Black Coffee - Ella Fitzgerald &/or Black Coffee - All Saints #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSongs PS: cake is optional extra - not part of song!

The Coffee Song - Frank Sinatra #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSongs

Woohoo! First swim of the year in double figures: a balmy 11.3⁰C 🏊‍♀️💙💦 ...and last one for #WeekRforReflections #AlphabetChallenge

Derwentwater delights #Swanday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforReflections

Good morning Windermere #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRelections

Enjoying Chatsworth last summer #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforReflections

GR postbox at Glenbranter on Cowal peninsula #postboxsaturday Entertainer Sir Harry Lauder sold this land to the Forestry Commission in the 1920s,with Glenbranter village built for those working on the forests

Sad reminder of the amenities that Dunoon has lost, including the bathing lido...or, if you're a glass half-full person, here's directions to all the attractions it still has! #fingerpostfriday

Sunset at the canal #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforReflections

Capturing the sky at Jupiter Artland #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforReflections

Aaaargh, from dreamlike to nightmare: @soph0517.bsky.social saw a giant shark in my pic of the clouds reflected in Bassenthwaite! 🦈😂 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforReflections

Sylvie checking for rain! #WhiskersOnWednesday

The Fernery at Benmore Botanic Gardens #WindowsOnWednesday

An abundance of cloudage at Bassenthwaite #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforReflection

It's hard to tell where the tree ends and the rock begins #thicktrunktuesday 📷 Glenan Woods - a stunning Atlantic oak woodland at Portavardie

Puffer at Inveraray #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforReflections

Autumn mist at Inveraray #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforReflections

Two special coins for the last day of #AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQueens I found them in my dad's bedside drawer when I was clearing the house. As they're dated 1968, I initially thought he'd kept them as a memento of my birth, but then realised they were first issued in April 1968

Momentum building for Scottish-style access rights in England, says film OUR LAND, an amazing new film that interviews both landowners & members of the @righttoroam.bsky.social campaign, is out in cinemas from 8th May. Be sure to see it - and tell your MP to go! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Agatha Christie: the queen of detective fiction 📚 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQueens

This Robin Hood's GR wall box has a sea view and a beer garden 🍻 #postboxsaturday

That's the first 6 letters collected in April for #AlphabetSwimming 🏊‍♀️💙💦 Starting in Scotland with Loch Achray, then on to Cumbria and Yorkshire for Buttermere, Crummockwater, Derwentwater, River Esk (Beggar's Bridge) and Floutern Tarn Onwards to Letter G...

Newly installed sign for #fingerpostfriday showing the way to Floutern Tarn and the location for Letter F of my #AlphabetSwimming 🏊‍♀️💙💦

Rosslyn Chapel snakes and ladders... Squares 84 and 85: Queen Victoria visits the Chapel in 1842 - have another turn! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQueens

Me and my brother in fancy dress at the village celebrations for the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQueens PS I'm the lion, not the scary unicorn (which reminds me of a Dr Who monster!)

Two Queens in play on the giant Chess board at Burton Agnes Hall #AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQueens

In tourist guides, Ullswater is often called the "Queen of the Lake District" #AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQueens

Searching 'Queens' gave me just this one pic: signpost to Queen's Gardens in Hull #AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQueens Must have been one I took ages ago for #fingerpostfriday and then forgot 🤷‍♀️😆

Last one for #AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPurple Couldn't decide if this was purple or blue, so have decided to go with elemental purple... Blue + red = purple 💜 📷 Allan Bank, Grasmere

Purple thistle (from last summer) #AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPurple

Which way shall we go at Ormesby Hall?! #NoSignsOnSaturday

Last April at Ightham Mote #AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPurple

This Scarborough E VII R box has a new job supervising the roadworks! #postboxsaturday

Strolling along the Cleveland Way at Cayton Bay #fingerpostfriday

Crystal bathing in the amethyst cave at Jupiter Artland - after a lovely November swim in the Charles Jencks’ Cells of Life landform pools #AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPurple

'Norfolk Woodland' linocut by contemporary UK printmaker Niki Bowers #womensart

#10minutesfromhome Albert Square in Manchester has finally reopened after around 5 long years! Here's one of the beautiful manhole covers( yes I did say manhole cover😁) Better Days Are Coming

Luscious lavender 📷 Castle Fraser, last summer #AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPurple

Bit of a cheat: My photo of Derwentwater and added a 'Cubist' style First time playing around with the 'style' edit tool - I quite like it 💜 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPurple

Heard first cuckoo today in Buttermere 🐦🎵 [Video doesn't capture cuckoo - view and sound of wind on Dodd, below Red Pike]

When you swim outside thro the winter even your duck needs a woolly hat...and your own gin! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPurple

Bassenthwaite bliss 🏊‍♀️💙💦

I will try harder, I promise... For now, this is my best offer for #WeekPforPurple Sylvie doing her daily inspection of the cupboard in the campervan! (The 'purple' is the tea towel wrapping the hot chocolate maker) #AlphabetChallenge

Finishing #WeekOforOld with this vintage poster I'd definitely have been tempted by the 'cup smashing' But not sure if being 'an efficient brass band' is really a compliment!?! #AlphabetChallenge

Harriet Love, contemporary stained glass artist #Womensart #Sunday

Time travel in Aidensfield (aka Goathland) and memories of watching Heartbeat on Sunday evenings #AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOld

'Scaredy Cat' by Cornish artist Kirsty Elson who trawls the beaches of her home collecting driftwood as the raw materials for her artworks #WomensArt

Postbox adoption!?! If you've ever wanted to provide a loving home for a 'retired' postbox, here's your opportunity... Cellar Antiques in Hawes have quite a selection, ranging from £450 to £850 Nearly tempted, but they are soooo heavy 📮 #postboxsaturday Also #AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOld

This might be my most favourite topper ever! #postboxsaturday 📷 Pickering

Riding the Scarborough Spa Cliff Lift - opened in 1875, it was Britain's First Funicular Railway #AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOld