Today's colours.

Sunshine and heavy showers on today's walk, the long way round to my mum's, via Landacan village and Storeton

Saturday Quiz Where on The Wirral are these four locations?

#PostboxSaturday Balls Road, Birkenhead

A few more snaps from today's walk.

Heswall to Irby walk today. Pleasant in the watery sunshine but still quite cool.

#FingerpostFriday Limbo Lane, Irby, Wirral

Yikes! 😱

Let's just hope the unthinkable is averted 🙏 Carl Sagan's 'Pale Blue Dot' speech feels prescient, and especially relevant as we contrast the wonders of the Artemis II mission with the actions of a madman. May reason and humanity prevail!

I thought we were going to be on for an epic sunset there, but it rapidly petered out to grey - still a bit of drama in the clouds though! 👍

#PostboxSaturday Alton Rd, Birkenhead

Saturday Quiz Where on The Wirral are these four locations?

#FingerpostFriday Eastham Village, Wirral.

Another nice sunset tonight, including a bit of a wave pattern just as it was fading.

Grange & Caldy Hills, this afternoon. Lots of gorse in flower, with that lovely scent of coconut!

A muddy walk from Frankby Village towards RAF West Kirby site, then the farm tracks towards Meols, today. In hindsight, it would have been better to let this route dry out more before attempting it, as some sections were really heavy going.

It's gone very windy here, with some interesting pre sunset skies. Plenty of wispy cirrus clouds in view.

Just bagged my first couple of Ordnance Survey benchmarks, under the Rockers Bridge and at Holy Cross church. 👀 I can feel this becoming an obsession already 🫣🤣 interactivemaps.uk/os-benchmark...

interactivemaps.uk/os-benchmark... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benchma... Hmmm, considering a new dull man's quest after my Birkenhead historical post box audit 🤔😄 Check out the interactive map - hours of fun 👍🤣

Saturday Quiz Where on The Wirral are these four locations?

#PostboxSaturday Edward VIII pillar box. Buccleuch St, Birkenhead.

Short walk this afternoon, via Landican Village.

#FingerpostFriday Pensby to Irby path, Wirral.

First proper walk for a while today, from Pensby to Royden Park. Felt great to be back out there again. Just in time to catch the last of the daffodils.🌼

Snowflakes, fritillaries and daffodils unscathed in my Mum's garden, having survived last night's gales. We celebrated by having a late breakfast up at the coffee shop ☕️🍽

Some blossom snaps, as I was walking down Swan Hill, just before. Thought I best document them before the anticipated stormy weather sets in fully, and blows all the petals off! 🫣😄🌸🥀🌺🌼

Good news - my GP has given me the green light to resume walking, albeit in an incremental level, and to build my step count up gradually. So Spring is not lost after all, and I can stop lounging around in the coffee shops of Birkenhead, and get back out into nature. Maybe not today though!🌨🌫🌬

Saturday Quiz Where on The Wirral are these four locations?

#PostboxSaturday Victorian wall box at Clifton Road, Birkenhead

Tulip update from my mum's garden - good to see the fritillaries coming into flower. I love thosee delicate patterns on their petals. 🌷🥀🌼

#FingerpostFriday. Pontcysyllte 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

#Mallory #Irvine #Everest Both climbers lived in Birkenhead, Mallory in Slatey Rd, and Irvine in Park Road South. Did they summit Everest in 1924? I'd like to think so, but either way, what a heroic attempt! 1924 British Mount Everest expedition - Wikipedia share.google/wBEMX6S9uZC5...

My mum's garden border is looking well, with the tulips coming out in front of the star magnolia, plus some snaps of colourful blossom near mine.

Tonight's sunset, from the back garden 🌅

Seems I've damaged a bone in my foot. Apparently a stress reaction, so gotta do minimal walking for several weeks whilst it heals, to avoid it possibly fracturing. Mega frustrating, as Spring is the best time to be out and about, taking photos. It's not even that painful. Getting old innit!🫣🙄

Another nice sunrise over Woodchurch, this morning. 🌅

Saturday Quiz Where on The Wirral are these four locations?

A hint of a sun pillar in today's sunrise over Woodchurch. 🌅

#FingerpostFriday Frankby, Wirral.

A few more photos from yesterday's walk, these of The Dell in Port Sunlight.

Today's walk in the sunshine took me through Rock Park, Shorefields, Port Sunlight, and finally down the old Levers railway footpath, finishing at Bromborough retail park

3 photos of Bidston Court Gardens, taken this morning. The 4th snap is of the driveway to one of the large houses on Upton Road, backing on to Bidston Hill. All those mansions on Noctorum ridge are fantastic, but then I wouldn't fancy doing the hoovering, so ...... 🤷‍♂️😄

A very brief and unexpected orange glow to this morning's sunrise, before quickly returning to more customary drab greyness🌅😎🌞

Birkenhead! 😍

Birkenhead Park and The Arno earlier this morning. Magnolia flowers starting to emerge 👍

Anyway, it occurred to me recently that my old mum's raised toilet seat has the same internal shape as the face from Edvard Munch’s The Scream. Today I was sufficiently bored that I used AI imaging to confirm this to myself 👍🫣🤣

Saturday Quiz Where on The Wirral are these four locations?

Today's walk took me from Frankby Stiles, over Thurstaston Hill, finishing in Irby Village. Different feel to the weather - overcast with light drizzle, but still warm work.

#FingerpostFriday Eastham Village,Wirral

Very Spring-like on the walk home from my mum's this afternoon, via Landican Village and Arrowe park.