This is my first time of joining in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge. When I saw the single flower challenge I thought of this little gem. It is an Echinacea – Cone Flower, taken at the wonderful Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall, UK.
Warwick Castle is a wonderful place for a writer to wander, soaking up the atmosphere and reliving history through the re-enactments. I’ve captured many images of Warwick Castle over the years and its been hard to narrow down my selection of photos to a few. I decided to share a few of the castle itself, but to mainly focus on the re-enactments which are lots of fun to watch.
And now for my favourites…
A bit more re-enactment with horses!
Another fight…
Add a little fire…
Finally, a little horsing around.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this trip into the past.
Have you been to Warwick Castle, what did you think?
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Tomorrow how about an Xtremely healthy lunch?
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Q is a tough letter in the A-Z Blog Challenge. I’m sure lots of other people have struggled too.
I’ve cheated by falling back on my second love next to writing – Photography. I’m really grateful my blog has given me the opportunity to share these photos rather than having them sitting on my hard drive never to be seen.
I choose to focus on Quality Close ups from West Midlands Safari Park. We’ve visited here almost every year for the last 12 years. I’ve filled memory cards with shots and it’s been quite a task to choose my favourite. Some are not the best Quality, but they are Quirky (managed to get in a 2nd Q!)
Here goes…
I’ve lost the will to go to West Mid since they got rid of their wolves. I blame Robin Hobb for my wolf obsession, ah Nighteyes… if you’ve read the Farseer books you’ll understand.
Also check out my post on my favourite writing retreat with wolves, if you’re as mad on them as I am!
Giraffe would like the last word…
Hope you’ve enjoyed the pictures.
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Tomorrow – R for reviewers
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As last weekend provided some lovely sunny weather, I decided to take a few shots around the garden of the spring leaves. I’m a bit of a shrubaholic (if such a thing exists). See if you can guess these leaves… (there’s no guarantee I will remember all their names though!)
There are three shrubs in the picture below – but I only planted two of them.
And remember this? 
Now looking more like this
These last ones are special to me. If you’ve read my book Visions of Zarua you might know why. It’s not looking its prettiest at the moment, but give it a few weeks!
Lovely Lilies
Lilies from a visit to Kew Gardens last year. So many beautiful varieties. According to my foraging guide (see F for Foraging post) you can cook and store the seeds of the lily but the rest of the plant is inedible (stringy and horrible I scribbled in my notes, though thankfully he didn’t expect us to try any).
I look forward to your guesses on the leaf quiz.
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Tomorrow M for … mmm I don’t know yet!
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