Holiday photo: Lanhydrock House

A Victorian House visited on holiday. After a fire in 1881 the house was restored in high Victorian style, an impressive long room and preserved quarters. I found the history of the family interesting, left for South Africa in the 1950s and the house passed to the National Trust - probably the family wealth had decreased and could no longer afford the upkeep.

Holiday photo: Coast overlooking Seaton

A holiday photo, along the south coast path in Cornwall. Overlooking Seaton on a (almost) clear day.

Photo: Spinnaker Tower Portsmouth

Part of my rare photo series, a shot of Spinnaker tower in Portsmouth. The much delayed and over budget tower is now part of the city skyline.

Too cloudy for a visit, the desginers probably did factor that into their earnings model.

Jam Tomorrow

Well today actually, my friend has been busy picking Blackberries and my mother made some jam out of it. Not quite mass production but it's a start to increasing our neglected manufacturing base.

Photo: USS Theodore Roosevelt

Last week this carrier was staying over in the Solent. It coincided with Obama's visit to Europe, and it was returning to Virginia from deployment.

Not much notice that it was arriving, and it stayed for a few days. Took this photo, it made a very imposing presence on the horizon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Theodore_Roosevelt_(CVN-71)

Photo: Farleigh Hungerford Castle

This is my 100th post, and I've not put enough photos on my blog (in all honesty I hardly take any).

This was a castle I visited in Somerset in 2006, and I took this - which was a good shot of the derelict turret. The castle dates from the 1370s and is a great example of the depths of British history. The Hungerford family certainly had a very colourful background!

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.16178

Return to Guildford Dec 2008

First post of this year, but something I did in December last year. I studied in Guildford and have returned infrequently. I always forget the last time that I have, mainly because the time between visits is years.

So a bit of Christmas shopping and a walk over campus to the cathedral. Most famous for appearing in "The Omen", but for me the place I had my graduation.

Some things had changed, some things were very familiar - it was a nice trip.

I even took a camera phone picture of the catherdral, of the steep steps I used to walk up of a Sunday night when returning for a week of work.