The Daily Grind
The Daily Grind
Archive for ‘April, 2017’
The Barge Man
The Barge Man
The Nettle
This, apparently, is a nettle you can grasp. It won’t sting you.
The Nettle
The Seedy Thing
The Seedy Thing
The New Leaf (2)
Another new leaf….never to early to turn over a new leaf!
The New Leaf (2)
The New Leaf (1)
Great to see new leaves arriving now Spring is really here.
The New Leaf
The Flowers I Miss (6) – The Furry Things…
Not sure what these things are either…
The Flowers I Miss (6) – The Blue Trumpets
The Flowers I Miss (5) – The Blue Trumpets
No idea what these are:
The Blue Trumpets
The Flowers I Miss (4) – The Little Red Jobs
The Flowers I Miss (4) – The Little Red Jobs
The Flowers I Miss (3) – The Purple Number…
Not sure what this is called either…
The Purple Number
The Flowers I Miss (2) – The Propellor Flower
I’m not sure what it is really called…
The Propellor Flower
The Flowers I Miss (1)
Out in the woods today shooting tiny flowers I often don’t notice.
The Flowers I Miss (1)
The Ducks on a Mission
The Ducks on a Mission
The Afternoon Snooze…
The Afternoon Snooze…
The Best Way To Warm Up A Cold Duck
The Best Way To Warm Up A Cold Duck
The Duck Lost in Thought
The Duck Lost in Thought
The Duck Family
Imagine having this many kids in one hit!?
The Duck Family (we used to protect the ducklings in cages so predators didn’t take them – this makes for a lot of ducks!).
The Strange Brew
Spotted in the supermarket here in Monnickendam this morning…
The Strange Brew
The Stately Home
The big house where most of us don’t live. Most of us live up the hill a bit!
The Stately Home
The Duck
The Duck
The Welder (2)
The Welder (2)
The Sunrise
The Sunrise
The Welder (1)
The Welder (1)
The Ship’s Chandlery
The Ship’s Chandlery
The Boat Builder
Our boat, Lucie, being built.
The Boat Builder
The Truly Classy Tour Guide Agency
The Truly Classy Tour Guide Agency
The Sign of the Times
The Sign of the Times
The Fine Old Building (Reduced)
This fine old building in Leicester Square in London reduced to a tacky gambling den.
The Fine Old Building (Reduced)
The Sound Man
The Sound Man
The Swan and the Mini-Swan
The Swan and the Mini-Swan
The Helmswoman (2)
Sue pilots Barge Lucie (our home) down the river….
The Helmswoman (2)
The Helmswoman (1)
Sue steers 30 tonnes of barge (our home) along the river…
The Helmswoman (1)
The Hawk
The Hawk
The Snout
Like many of us, just keeping our heads above water!
The Snout
The Snoozing Duck
Sometimes you just have to stick your beak under the covers and ignore the world!
The Snoozing Duck
The New Arrivals
The New Arrivals
The Girl Photographer
Photography needs more girls!
The Girl Photographer
The Bright Idea (2)
The Bright Idea (2)
The Statue and the Clock
The Statue and the Clock
The Rolls
Everyone should have one!
The Rolls
The Sinking Feeling
The Sinking Feeling
The Bright Idea (1)
The Bright Idea
The Ship’s Engineer
The Ship’s Engineer
The Bar
The Bar
The Tall Mushrooms
…or maybe they’re toadstools…
The Tall Mushrooms
The Green Geezer
The Green Geezer
The Back End Of The Big Bird
The Back End Of The Big Bird
The Big Sky Over The Netherlands
The Big Sky Over The Netherlands
The Hill
The Hill
The Windmill Fixer
The Windmill Fixer
The Lysander
My favourite World War 2 aircraft
The Lysander
The ‘Not To Be Trusted’
I hate to be unkind to animals but I firmly believe that the only good snake is a dead one!
The ‘Not To Be Trusted’
The Lady With Flowers
The Lady With Flowers
The Bike Park
Whatever you do when you visit Amsterdam, don’t forget where you parked your bike. If you do, you’ll never find it in the sea of bikes which surrounds Amsterdam Central Station.
The Bike Park
The Image From California
Here’s a wonderful photograph taken by my very good friend, Jeanine, who is currently enjoy a short break in California. Jeanine is just about to launch her own blog. Jeanine might also appear here as a guest blogger! Please stay tuned for details!
The Additional Cute Furry Animal
Another cute furry animal….
The Additional Cute Furry Animal
First cute fury animal here
Second cute fury animal here
The Butterfly
The Butterfly
The “Are You Looking At Me” Bird
With all due respect to Robert De Niro…
The “Are You Looking At Me” Bird
The Spiny Norman (2)
And here’s another Spiny Norman
The Spiny Norman (2)
Spiny Norman (1) is here.
Why Spiny Norman? Here for the answer.
The Other Cute Furry Creature
The Other Cute Furry Creature. The first Cute Furry Creature is here.
The Ring Of Flowers
Some more flowers!
The Ring Of Flowers
The Spiny Norman (1)
For Monty Python lovers everywhere – Spiny Norman!
The Spiny Norman (1)
The Purple Haze
Fellow blogger, John McLawson (you can find him here) has been posting photographs of flowers taken in the Nevada desert. Flowers in John’s desert somehow make it despite the arid conditions. So, with John in mind, I took this photograph of flowers growing here in Holland (as usual, no idea what sort of flowers they are). There is never a shortage of water here in the Netherlands (indeed it is raining today) and of course the Dutch are famous for their flowers. Fortunately, we don’t have rattlesnakes in the Netherlands either and so I do urge John to watch where he walks when wandering in the desert taking photographs.
The Purple Haze
The Creature From The Black Lagoon
For those old enough to remember the film….
The Creature From The Black Lagoon
The Shopping Lady Returns…
The Shopping Lady Returns…
The Pooping Penguin Pals
Always good to poop copiously on your doorstep!!!
The Penguin Pals
The Mother and Child
The Mother and Child
The Queen
The Queen
The King
The King
The Unhappy Monkey
They always look so unhappy…
The Unhappy Monkey
The Cute Furry thing
Amsterdam Zoo today. No idea what it is.
The Cute Furry Thing
The Post From The Bus
Doing this one from the bus into Amsterdam and so no idea what image will pop up!
The Girls on the A
The Girls on the A
The Bridge
The Bridge
The Download
I don’t know why you would, but, if you would like to download a pdf of my monochrome images (a random selection) you can if you click on this Dropbox link
Please feel free to share either the link or the pdf (around 5 Mb).
The Download
The Engineer
The Engineer
The Oldest Bar In Amsterdam
The Oldest Bar In Amsterdam
The Path
The Path
The Toe Dip
The Toe Dip
The Love Me Graffiti
The Love Me Graffiti
The Guest
The Guest
The Sugar Thief
The Sugar Thief
The Naughty Gnomes
Oh what terribly rude gnomes!!!
The Naughty Gnomes
The Hitchhiker
A third class ride is better than a first class walk (or swim).
The Hitchhiker
The Lunch For One…
You just can’t beat spending a day in Amsterdam taking photographs and enjoying a quiet lunch in one of Amsterdam’s wonderful brown bars. The perfect day out.
The Lunch For One…
The Amsterdam Book Market
The Amsterdam Book Market
The Climber
The Climber
The Blur Woman (3)
The Blur Woman (3)
The Strange Unfolding Plants From Outer Space (perhaps)…
I’m not sure what these strange unfolding plants are but I’m sure they’re from some other planet!
Alien Plants
The Driver’s Seat
The Driver’s Seat
The Rhubarb (you can’t beat it!)…
When I was a child we used to dip a stick of rhubarb into a cup of sugar and eat it – delicious! I’m sure that’s probably against the law these days.
The Rhubarb
The blackbird in her nest…
Quite a cosy little nest tucked away in the ivy…
The blackbird in her nest…
The Team Building Exercise
Some cross [English] Channel swimmers prepare for their swim by doing team building exercises.
The Team Building Exercise
Mystery Woman (9)
Mystery Woman (9)
The Double Duck
And even more ducks today…..
The Double Duck
The Red Bird
The de Havilland DH88 Comet. This has to be one of the most beautiful and graceful aircraft ever built.
The Red Bird
The Girls
The Girls
The Canoe
Lake Victoria, Uganda
The Canoe
The Airfield (from way up!)
The Airfield (from way up!)
The Sad Duck Story…
The image shows one of the muscovy ducks we used to rescue each year in the Spring. If we protected them, then predators wouldn’t take them and they’d go on to repay us by pooping everywhere around the house!
Here in the marina in Holland where we’re now tied up, we’ve just watched a mother duck try to look after her clutch of nine ducklings. On the first day she had nine ducklings. She was down to six ducklings on the second day. She only had three ducklings yesterday and today, she has none. This is really sad. Nature can be so very cruel. We don’t know but we think the magpies hereabouts are the villains of the peace.
The Sad Duck Story…