Kamchatka is somewhere I heard about many, many, many years ago, saw some photos and thought wow I’d love to go there. Little did I know that one day I would get the opportunity. Richard and I have been invited by Berghaus athlete Julia Pickering to join her on an expedition. The aim of the [...]
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Last week, I was tagged for a feature entitled “The Next Big Thing by Author/Photojournalist Dorothy Wills-Raftery. Dorothy is the author of Whats Wrong With Gibson, a book about one of her five Siberian Huskies who suffers from epilepsy. She also writes the very informative and beautifully illustrated FiveSibes blog. You can read all about [...]
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50 years ago today my parents were married. Today is their Golden Wedding Anniversary. Next week we shall join them in the UK with friends and family to celebrate this mile stone. Happy anniversary mum and dad x
Read More golden wedding anniversaryWatch the 2 videos and then please take a minute to email the address below. This is another sad situation that some dogs find themselves in through no fault of their own. We need to add pressure to the authorities to actually do something about this other than kill the dogs. The Spanish Kennel Club [...]
Read More abuse, mallorca, siberian husky, spain, urgentAnyone travelling to Spain should be aware of the dates that the airports are planning to strike. The Spanish airport strike dates are: April 20, 21, 24, 25 and 30, 2011 May 2, 14, 15, 19 and 20, 2011 June 13, 23 and 30, 2011 July 1, 2, 3, 4, 15 and 31, 2011
Read More airport strike, spainToday we have had our first and only major wildfire this summer. We nearly made it to the end of summer without one. I grabbed the point and press camera before taking the dogs out this morning, quite a normal thing for me to do. Whilst walking I thought I could smell smoke, I looked [...]
Read More Lanjaron, sierra de los guájares, wildfireRemember this? My birthday in September 2007 A Gota Fria is :- Gota Fria or ‘Cold Drop’ occurs when warm air saturated with water vapour rises and meets a much colder layer high up in the atmosphere. The sudden change in air temperature causes the water vapour saturated air to cool quickly and as a result the [...]
Read More canar, gota fria, gr7, Lanjaron, soportujarNot alot to say about these as they are self explanatory. Hope you like them. Whilst taking photos from the roof terrace of Bee Eaters all hell started in the olive tree next to me, there was thud, flapping of wings and birds scattering all over the place. I noticed a bird jump out of the [...]
Read MoreHarness the power of the sun, so we did, we brought a solar cooker! Its called a Sun Oven and was purchased from these people who run a very efficient site. It arrived late Wednesday evening and by the end of Thursday we had cooked Patatas a la Pobre and a whole chicken. The Patatas a la [...]
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