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yrenees to pennines we went to france and then we came back menu home about this un sporting life i was that girl at school who cheerfully accepted yet another detention for forgetting her sports kit rather than endure yet another hockey lesson on a freezing pitch i was that woman who married the man she was certain would never switch over to catch some sporting fixture on tv so sporting pictures for monochrome madness hosted this week by elke of pictures imperfect fame are very thin on the ground for me my only chance is to catch sight of a knock about in the park or to notice a roller blader honing his skills in the skateboard park other than that big cycle races are our only concession to sports viewing when we lived in france the tour de france passed before our house there twice and when it began here in yorkshire in 2014 it yet again chose to pass our house these photos show a glimpse of the caravane publicitaire in france and of not the tour de france but the tour de yorkshire passing near where we live and cycling through nearby kirkby malzeard me i prefer a long walk out in the dales with a friend or two does that count i ve included a little bit of street art spotted in angers as my header photo it seems to be a rock climber picking her way carefully upwards in rue montault author margaret21 posted on may 6 2026 categories blogging challenge tags cycling monochrome madness 31 comments on this un sporting life i m singing in the rain just singing in the rain though i love little better than having a good book to read amassing favourite quotations in my battered and becoming unfit for purpose brain isn t something that comes naturally so anne christine s lens artist photo challenge this week pick a favourite quote and illustrate it was a challenge indeed then a silly ditty my children and i enjoyed popped into my head well it had been raining all day and how the rain it raineth every day upon the just and unjust fellah but more upon the just because the unjust hath the just s umbrella and here they are those stolen umbrellas a bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain robert frost is this an umbrella bank i wonder umbrellas sometimes simply aren t enough the best thing one can do when it s raining is to let it rain henry wadsworth longfellow somtimes it s best to have a sheet of glass between you and the rain après moi le déluge often attributed to louis xv or madame de pompadour well we were on our way to france at the time we who live in god s own country can only dream of a rain free week when others try to rain on your dreams carry an umbrella and carry on unknown but then after there s a rainbow the way i see it if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain dolly parton the nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops eventually eeyore in aa milne s winnie the pooh ps i ve sneaked in a sixth photo against instructions as my header photo with no quotation attached to it i hope it won t count author margaret21 posted on may 4 2026 categories weather tags lens artist challenge quotations rain 46 comments on i m singing in the rain just singing in the rain the blossom s on its way out for another year for debbie s one word sunday white author margaret21 posted on may 3 2026 may 3 2026 categories gardens tags blossom one word sunday white 19 comments on the blossom s on its way out six degrees of separation from wild dark shore to island dreams on the first saturday of every month a book is chosen as a starting point and linked to six other books to form a chain readers and bloggers are invited to join in by creating their own chain leading from the selected book kate books are my favourite and best this month s chain starts with wild dark shore by charlotte mcconaghy i m fourth in a queue of readers at the library waiting to borrow this book here s the first sentence of the book s resume dominic salt and his three children are caretakers of shearwater a tiny weather lashed island that is home to the world s largest seed bank so i m going with the sea for all the books in my chain this month i m going to try to dodge books i ve showcased before and that i know many of you have also recommended so no clear by carys davies no seascraper by benjamin wood or james rebanks the place of tides which kate has just reviewed in fact let s not start with a novel at all let s celebrate the fish that so often feed us specifically here the fish round the british coast in silver shoals by charles rangeley wilson i was entirely and unexpectedly engaged by this book an exploration of our nation s iconic fish cod carp eels salmon and herring this is a story of the fish themselves of fishermen of the consequences of greed and the way back from it of geology meteorology our nation s social history as it relates to food and farming of corruption and political will it combines serious discussion of issues with good yarns about the fishermen who took rangeley wilson fishing with them whether on week long voyages on trawlers or half day sorties to the local river bank he travelled north south east and west in quest of fish and their stories and produced an absorbing account which i read in record time because i was so enthralled by all the threads of the story charles rangeley wilson told those silver shoals don t include tuna kings of their own ocean tuna obsession and the future of our seas by karen pinchin talks of little else this is quite a story it details the history of man s love of eating tuna from way before roman times to the present day when the japanese have cornered much of the market while teaching the world to enjoy their own particular obsession with the freshest choicest tuna flesh the book details a history of overfishing of trying to understand the tuna s migration patterns of political interests and manoeuvres and focusses on particular individuals who have been prominent in the story such as tuna tagging supremo al anderson an engaging book reeling in this non scientist who has no prior knowledge of the industry and who doesn t even eat tuna even less likely to now so now to a novel about fishing about whaling to be exact the north water by ian mcguire this is a gritty story set largely in a 19th century whaling ship there s violence brutality bad language bowel movements a plenty but it doesn t feel gratuitous patrick sumner has we eventually discover left the british army in disgrace and his options are few he becomes a ship s surgeon on the whaling ship and finds that a hard and desperate life becomes even worse as the ship and its crew battle against an arctic winter and a particularly brutal and amoral member of the crew an involving and gripping story that recreates a world i can only be grateful not to be a part of i saw a good and faithful tv adaptation of this book some years ago recommended audrey magee s the colony might have been a good choice to begin my chain we re in ireland in 1979 on a small sparsely populated and isolated island whose inhabitants have only recently started to learn and use english two visitors come to spend their summers there mr lloyd is a painter who wants to explore the landscape he s rude and entitled but interesting to young islander james who has ambitions to go to art school masson known as jp is a french academic keen to preserve and promote the irish language whether the inhabitants want it or not each chapter is interspersed with a terse newspaper like account of a sectarian murder on the mainland whether of a catholic or a protestant at first these almost seem an irrelevance gradually the penny drops that these incidents are deeply rooted in the history of the english towards their irish colony and do much to explain the largely hostile feelings both of the islanders and its two visitors the book paints a picture of an island in many ways left behind whose characters still struggle to find their place in the world as indeed do the two visitors a book to provoke thought long after the last page has been turned let s turn to another irish island in john boyne s water part of his elements quartet we meet a woman in middle years who has just fled to live on a fairly remote irish island changed her name and as far as possible her appearance why only slowly do we find out her husband s crimes reflect on her the world assumed she had enabled them and she believes one even greater tragedy she has done her best to vanish she meets a few characters who are also uncomfortable with their lives making relationships with some slowly she regains the strength of character necessary to reject her husband and to renew her relationship with her daughter this book deftly charts her slow but steady steps to recovery i ll finish where i began with non fiction and with the subject of the starter book and two of my other choices islands in island dreams by gavin francis this is a beautifully produced book on heavy paper with blue and black ink the text is allowed generous space to breathe as well the text is interspersed also generously with maps old and new illustrating the outlines of islands he visits and discusses these are the only illustrations often the subject of the map will be for instance the usual trade routes using the islands illustrated so this is a book to savour and linger over returning several times to the maps on display gavin francis has often been able to combine his passion for island hopping with his career working in those places he has most wanted to visit he appreciates the way that islands can offer both isolation and yet a sense of community with those who call it home this is a book that s both very personal yet also universal it encompasses myth psychology philosophy literature and straightforward travel writing quickly read it demands to be looked at again and again it will stay in my mind for a long time so there we have it my sea related chain our next book is stefan zweig s the post office girl will my next chain be post office related now that would be a challenge author margaret21 posted on may 2 2026 may 2 2026 categories books and reading tags audrey magee charles rangeley wilson charlotte mcconaghy gavin francis ian mcguire john boyne karen pinchin six degrees of separation 38 comments on six degrees of separation from wild dark shore to island dreams may day morning apologies for two posts in one day but i wanted to share this morning s may day sunrise at 05 30 at studley royal i tried a shot yesterday but it didn t work out so i m not prepared to share it with brian as my last on the card for april let s call it my almost first on the card for may author margaret21 posted on may 1 2026 categories fountains abbey and studley royal tags dawn last on the card may day 32 comments on may day morning watercolours water seems to revel in the chance to become a canvas painted by the world above it the clouds the sky the trees buildings and daily life which surround it here s some bird life whose watery home reflects the world beyond and here are ripples to baffle the eye and i m not sure that this sandy scene counts as a watery shot but it couldn t have been achieved without the sea so recently washing over it let s finish in holiday mood with the reflections of pleasure seeking boats at the port in alicante beth hosts this week s lens artists photo challenge on the water author margaret21 posted on may 1 2026 may 1 2026 categories uncategorized 47 comments on watercolours birds in the water looking for birds beginning with p last week i came upon other birds which didn t what many of them did have was their being water birds the pair in the header shot are godwits here are a few others flamingos at slimbridge a heron a juvenile herring gull and four cormorants they re for leanne s monochrome madness and why not also for beth s lens artists photo challenge on the water more later in colour author margaret21 posted on april 29 2026 categories wildlife tags lens artists photo challenge monochrome madness water birds 50 comments on birds in the water monday morning meerkats doing what meerkats do best at thorpe perrow arboretum monday portrait author margaret21 posted on april 27 2026 categories animals tags meerkats monday portrait thorpe perrow arboretum 31 comments on monday morning meerkats fashion seen at the museu de l estampació premià de mar the only museum in spain celebrating the art of printing on textile for debbie s one word sunday author margaret21 posted on april 26 2026 categories catalonia spain tags fashion museu de l estampació one word sunday premià de mar 16 comments on fashion posing as passerines monochrome madness possibly this week sarah s calling for things beginning with p i ve picked birds birds beginning with p i need to confess that not one of the birds featured below is a passerine though this order of birds accounts for about half of all bird species peacocks puffins parakeets pigeons pelicans pheasants none of them fits the bill the raven in my featured photo is a passerine however though he doesn t begin with p a perfectly posh peacock parading puffins pious parakeet paddling pigeons prying pelicans pair of pheasants for leanne s monochrome madness hosted today by sarah of travel with me author margaret21 posted on april 22 2026 categories wildlife tags birds monochrome madness travel with me 41 comments on posing as passerines posts pagination page 1 page 2 page 225 next page search for search follow from pyrenees to pennines on wordpress com follow blog via email enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email email address follow archives archives select month may 2026 april 2026 march 2026 february 2026 january 2026 december 2025 november 2025 october 2025 september 2025 august 2025 july 2025 june 2025 may 2025 april 2025 march 2025 february 2025 january 2025 december 2024 november 2024 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