A mini-drama: When C was nearly blown away on Calgary beach 🌬 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDramatic

I love finding hagstones #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCloseUp

Snoozing... #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCloseUp #Caturday

Baxter's Loan - another Dunblane #heritagepath It was getting a bit too dark to read the signpost, but the nights are getting lighter - hurrah! #fingerpostfriday

Blue: a sea-worn boat at Cromarty #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCloseUp

I really think the collective noun for snowdrops should be a 'hope' #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCloseUp

Day out at the agricultural show #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCloseUp

Peeping thro the steam engine window into the driver's cab #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCloseUp

Thistle do for #WeekCforCloseUp #AlphabetChallenge

Goldilocks and the Three Bears Bus shelter art, Keswick #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks

One of my fav books It took me a while to track down a copy of W. Heaton Cooper's beautiful 'The Tarns of Lakeland' #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks Gorgeous illustrations with beautiful narrative and so much info, including depth - invaluable for planning swim-hikes 🥾🏊‍♀️💦

The inspiration for Ben Gunn's cave in 'Treasure Island' by Robert Louis Stevenson 🏴‍☠️🦜 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks

First snowdrop 🤍

Holiday planning in Norfolk and Suffolk - following in the splashes of Roger Deakin 🏊‍♀️💦 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks

A lovely gift last year If you haven't read 'Raising Hare', it's an absolutely gorgeous book #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks

The Leighton Library, Dunblane Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library. Built on 1687 and still open over 300 years later #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks 📚

This book has been on a bookcase everywhere I've lived. I think I was 6 years old when I received it. A little worn and battered, it's been well-loved and read many times. Even now, I love to escape into Hundred Acre Wood with Pooh & co #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks

This year I will definitely swim in the gorgeous abstract artwork pool at Jupiter Artland #alphabetchallenge #WeekAforAbstract

Duck artwork 🦆❄️ #AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAbstract

A corner of the stunning Jenks landform at Jupiter Artland #alphabetchallenge #WeekAforAbstract

Back to summer at Yorkshire Sculpture Park #alphabetchallenge #WeekAforAbstract

No paws allowed! Gaby looks on as we explore the artwork created thro dance #alphabetchallenge #WeekAforAbstract

Ice pancakes ❄️

Icy puddles ❄️ #AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAbstract

The abstract art of water abstraction! Water flows beautifully down the dam outflow at Glen Finglas reservoir 💦 #alphabetchallenge #WeekAforAbstract

#AlphabetChallenge #ThemesWeek B for Beware D for Danger S for Signs

Waiting for the fish to arrive! B for Bird H for Heron or Horizon S for Sea W for Water #AlphabetChallenge #ThemesWeek

Back to the tricky letters: Y for Yesterday Quite literally, a photo you took yesterday, or one that 'feels like it was only yesterday' or images that capture bygone days #ThemesWeek #AlphabetChallenge

Happy New Year! First sunrise swim of 2026 at Pittenweem #AlphabetChallenge #ThemesWeek S for Swimming, Sunrise & Sea

#AlphabetChallenge #ThemesWeek S for sunsets C for chips or celebration! Watching the sun set on the last day of the year - we really know how to celebrate Hogmanay! 😂

This would be one of my fav's for B for Bathroom 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😂 #AlphabetChallenge #ThemesWeek

Z for Zen Images of calm, peace and relaxation, or that capture your moment of zen #ThemesWeek #AlphabetChallenge

Sticking with the more difficult letters: J for Joy Pictures that capture joy, images that bring you joy, or quite lierally include the word joy #ThemesWeek #AlphabetChallenge

Frosty morning...and superb explosions of hair ice ❄️

How about: I for Imperfect Covering shots that aren't quite what you intended, but you still like them, as well as objects and views with imperfections #AlphabetChallenge #ThemesWeek

Finishing #WeekZforZero with whisky that's been 'sleeping' since 2022 😴 It's met the minimum 3 years in the cask to be sold as whisky, but it will probably be a few more years before it's time to wake up and be bottled #AlphabetChallenge

Finishing 2025 #postboxsaturday with one from the summer... This [replica] Penfold on Iona has a stunning view 📮

UK based stained glass artist Harriet Love #Womensart.

You have to use a bit of imagination to see the zeros... Me and Rachael trying to 'shape' 100 to celebrate swimming in my 100th [unique] water 10 fingers x 10 fingers was the best we could do 😂 #WeekZforZero #AlphabetChallenge

More of artist Helga Stentzel's fun clothesline animals #WomensArt

Strolling around Alloa #fingerpostfriday

A total of 12 zeros... ...on this info board about the sound installation at Bannockburn #WeekZforZero #AlphabetChallenge

A Christmas classic... ...and too many zeros to count! Monopoly in the van on Christmas Day 2021 #WeekZforZero #AlphabetChallenge Happy Christmas 🎄

"A Cat's Life - Wonder" Art by Gerard du Bois #MenWithCats

Two zeros in 100! Two Flying Scotsman ducks to join us on our 'steamy dipper' swims #WeekZforZero #AlphabetChallenge

One of my colder swims 0.5⁰C ❄️ Lubnaig, January 2023 #WeekZforZero #AlphabetChallenge

Best I can do as a start to #WeekZforZero - a 0 in this train's number, steaming along the Strathspey Railway #AlphabetChallenge

Happy Solstice Started the shortest day of the year with a lovely sunrise swim 🏊‍♀️💙

Perfect timing 👌 Sun shining thro the 'lighthouse' on Hoad Hill, Ulverston #WeekYforYearPast #AlphabetChallenge

Su Blackwell, UK artist who works with disgarded books to create paper sculptures often based on fairy tales and nature #WomensArt 🎄❄️