Look Mum No Computer

Having just discovered Sam Battle's amazing Modular Synth live performances on youtube, we were very excited to be able to get 2 of the last tickets to see him perform at The Jericho Tavern in Oxford.

Lancaster for Bunkfest

Tremendous sights and sounds of the Lancaster passing over our house while doing laps for Wallingford’s Bunkfest. 

Beautiful start to our last day of the IoW trip

Relatively clear skies and a Northward aspect from our Tiny Home

Welsh Dark Skies and an incredible Milky Way

7am ride right around Robell Fawr

Evening ride on the eMTB

Staying in The Malverns

Autumnal hues 

Silverstone Hotel - with balcony on the Hamilton Straight

Senna’s 1st birthday 

Coldplay were phenomenal.The visual theatre from the multi-coloured...

Lake Windermere- chilled after the weekend busyness 

Escaping to The Lake District 

15km SUP

What a perfect afternoon, SUP’ing the 15km, from Clifton Hampden back to Wallingford with Jack.

David Gray at Blenheim Palace

Spitfire flyby at Stonor

How… 

How it started.
How it’s going.

Lap of Lights at Silverstone

Henley Sculls - with the Wallingford J15 quads winning

The glorious Ferrari 458

Solar Eclipse 

The UK had a partial solar eclipse today - maybe about 15% - so I had to dash out between calls to see it.
It was rather cloudy - meaning, it was much easier to photograph.

Garden Mutjac

Finally caught sight of our garden intruder.
After hearing odd noises out the back in the early hours recently, it’s turned out to be a sweet little muntjac at 4.30am

Garden Flowers

Enjoying the garden - and trying some photos to take advantage of the fantastic light, with great contrast. 

The Thames nr Culham, down to the weir

Culham Canoeing

Glorious weekend weather, and with Jack at rowing, Zoe, Em and I went for a paddle on the Thames. Putting in at Culham, we headed up to the marina, explored some off-channels, then down to the weir and back. 

Picture postcard : Blewbury

Such a vivid rainbow outside right now. 🌈

Bluebell wood at Grey's Court

Moon-gazing

Regatta

Our favourite picnic spot

Reservoir walks

Enjoying the garden

Spring has arrived, and along with it, a growing abundance of stunning wildlife, flora and fauna.

Everyday we enjoy sitting in garden, and the more we look the more we see.

The White Horse at Uffington 

The woods near Mackney farm

At the end of the day....

Swyncombe Stroll

With some fine weather on the penultimate day of 2020 (and with continued covid restrictions) we explored more of our local area. This time exploring Swyncombe woods, giving a little bit of elevation and some lovely open views. (Plenty of great climbing trees too)

Conjuction

Conjunction -2d 

The conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter was amazing to observe live tonight. So glad Zoe reminded me about it, and so glad the family managed to see it for about 10 mins of observation before the cloud bank obscured it.
On the 21st the two planets will be visually the closest since 1623... and another 400 years until the next time this close!
Only managed to grab one not-so-pic, so let’s hope for clear skies on 20/21

Lap Land Postcard

What a spectacular treat, to be able to cruise (slowly) around the international circuit at Silverstone enjoying the festive laser light show.

Lap Land

ASIair first live stack ‘ish

Not much to look at, but I finally got my first images of any sort from the ASIair tonight.The tedious firmware update for the mount seems to have helped... and while progress is slow, it is hopefully something to build upon.

Winter later afternoon sun

Thankful for some weekend sun, when I can get out to enjoy it. After a lovely stroll around Blewbury we stopped on the way home to get some drone shots as the sun sank ever lower.

Recording some of the DAM training videos this evening.

Across Oxfordshire from Swincombe to the Clumps

Streatley Hill stroll

With another break in the weather, we headed out to explore another new walk nearby. Parking up Streatley Hill we headed over the road and enjoyed a glorious walk around the autumnal trees, and carpets of fallen leaves. Culminating in a brilliant view across to Goring and the `Thames.

Thruxton Supercars

Porsche, Aston Martin, Ferrari 458, and McLaren 570s - what an amazing day. 
With delays of 18 months due to mechanical breakdown, and covid shutdowns, it was definitely worth the wait!

Combining

Impromptu camping trip.Em remains ‘optimistic’ about the weather ap...

Stunning Welsh lakes

Dramatic skies at night

Glorious end to the day

Hafon Owen

Skirrid See Mores