Raspberries

I wasn't able to pick any raspberries yesterday evening, so today's crop was quite generous.  There are still loads more waiting to ripen.

Today's crop

And still a lot left to ripen more

Smoking

I went to fetch my daughter and her new baby from hospital today.  While I was waiting in reception for her to come down, I noticed this poster on the wall.

I used to smoke like a chimney, but gave it up on 5 January 2002, 16 + years ago.  At the time I decided that I would give it up until I was 70, since I thought at the time that at that age it wouldn't matter too much if I started again.

As I get closer to 70 I realise that there is no way now that I would want to start smoking again.  I'm free of the habit and there is no way I would go back to it.

Drawing to Deal

Bridge with friends today.

To decide who deals first, you draw a card from the deck and the person with the highest card deals the first hand.  After that you take it in turns to deal in a clockwise direction.

Ace of spades is the highest card in the deck.

Bay Tree

A bay tree in a walled garden. There is a circle of leaves covered in gold leaf.  This is more obvious in the closeup below.

I missed a day yesterday.  I was distracted by the birth of my first grandchild.  

On the road, a rainbow

Starting tomorrow, at least a picture a day, with or without a blog post, for the whole year.

No picture today, just this quick intoduction to this blog.