Hamerton Wildlife

The Bearded Lizards from Australia are always in this position.  The Meerkats change lookouts frequently, chattering when the Kites swoop down to pick up scraps but otherwise playing happily. 

Stags in the Morning

The photograph we were after was the second from top here.  Just enough morning light to pick out the horns against the mist, and as the animal moved forward, a line of about twenty photographers appeared in the mist behind it (to our right) all looking for the baying stag with its breath backlit by the sun.  We must have been popular!  

Morning in the Park

We returned to the park before sunrise and headed for the area where we'd seen stags the previous day.  It was misty and wet (and cold!).  

Strawberry Hill

Originally a small villa in Twickenham called Chopp'd Straw Hall, it was enlarged and renamed by Horace Walpole, who bought it in 1748 and furnished it with things bought on his Grand Tour in a style known as Strawberry Hill Gothic, after Walpole's novels.  From the top:  the exterior; the Library; the staircase; the Gallery.

Evening in the Park

A front of rain swept across London today, leaving a clear sky in the evening.  Ann and I went to Richmond Park and photographed this red deer stag in the late sunlight.  

Attitude (or not)

The Vauxhall Cresta (top, or is that 'over the top') must come from Essex, but the refined Farina Oxford has a Victor in sober brown behind it.  The truck sports a flathead V8 (side inlet as well as exhaust valve) where the saloons have OHV engines.

Bikes at Sywell

The very attractive James motorcycle, probably 125cc two-stroke, with hand gear change lever.  Then a gaggle of small-capacity Japanese cafe racers and finally a Panther.  These were made in Cleckheaton, W. Yorks, from 1903 until 1966, and all used a sloping single cylinder engine up to 650cc (two exhaust valves?) and had huge amounts of torque.